GI Flashcards
Gingival hypertrophy
Side effect of CCB or phenytoin (anti-epileptic)
Bird beak appearance (with dilated oesophagus)
Achalasia
In lower GI imaging is a sign of bowel obstruction
Grey Turner’s sign
Bruising of the flank
Acute pancreatitis
Bruising of the flank and umbilicus
Grey Turner’s and Cullen’s sign
Acute pancreatitis
Cullen’s sign
Bruising of the umbilicus
Acute pancreatitis
Murphy’s sign
Pain on expiration on hypocondral region
Positive in cholecystitis
Pale stools, jaundice and abdo pain
Biliary obstruction
Abdo distention, caput medusae, shifting dullness
Ascites secondary to portal hypertension
Pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodusum
Crohn’s or UC
Tinkling bowel sounds
Bowel obstruction
Vesicular rash + Weight loss
Crohn’s
Virchow’s node (left supra-clavicular)
Gastric cancer
Urea breath test
H.pylori
Carbon-14 breath test
Bacterial overgrowth
Rice water stools
Vibrio cholera
Positive AMA
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Positive ASMA
Autoimmune hepatitis
Alpha feto protein assay
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Cobblestone mucosa
Crohn’s disease
Diuretic given in ascites secondary to cirrhosis
Spironolactone
Corkscrew oesophagus on barium swallow
Diffuse oesophageal spasm
Severe abdo pain
Diarrhea and vomiting after consuming raw milk
Campylobacter
Russell’s sign
Self induced vomiting
Mallory’s hyaline bodies
Alcoholic liver disease (Acute hepatitis) & chronic active hepatitis
Crypt abscess/cryptitis
Inflammatory bowel
Crohn’s
Onion skinning fibrosis, beading of bile ducts
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
“Signet Ring” cells seen on biopsy
Linitis plastica, diffuse stomach cancer
Thumb-printing on X-ray
Commonly at splenic flexure
Ischaemic colitis
Charcot’s triad
The signs on acute cholangitis - Fever - Jaundice - Abdominal pain Secondary to cholelithiasis
Causes of abdominal mass
A CHEMICAL
A CHEMICAL
- AAA
- Crohn’s
- Hernia
- Enlarged organ
- Malignancy
- Intersusception
- Cyst/abcess
- Appendicitis
- Lymphadenopathy
Causes for bowel obstruction
BATH VIPS
BATH VIPS
- Bolus
- Adhesions
- Tumours
- Hernia
- Volvulus
- Intersussception
- Pseudo-obstruction
- Stricture
Side effect of spironlactone
Gynaecomastia
What is the mouth disease associated with Crohn’s disease
Stomatitis gangrenosum
Replacement of oesophageal stratified squamous epithelium by simple columnar epithelium with goblet cells
Barretts oesophagus
Which liver enzyme is increased in alcoholic liver disease
AST
“wASTed”
The six F’s of abdominal distention
Fat Foetus Flatus Faeces Fluid Fucking giant tumour
