GI Tract and Non Cardiac Chest Flashcards by Mandy Wright

Which of the following is not a layer of gut identified with sonography?

Serosa

Mucosa

Visceral

Submucosa

Visceral

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All of the following are sonographic criteria in the diagnosis of pyloric stenosis except:

*doughnut appearance in transverse

* wall of the pylorus measures less than 8 mm

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All of the following are sonographic findings of acute appendicitis except:

appendicolith

hyperemic flow

compressible, blind-ended tube

peripendiceal fluid collection

compressible, blind-ended tube

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Clinical findings of acute appendicitis include all of the following except:

rebound tenderness

leukocytosis

right lower quadrant pain

constipation

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Gastric cancer is most often in the form of:

angiosarcoma

adenocarcinoma

rhabdomyocarcinoma

cystadenocarcinoma

adenocarcinoma

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The telescoping of one segment of bowel into another is referred to as:

Volvulus

pyloric stenosis

intussusception

Crohn disease

intussusception

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Clinical findings of retroperitoneal fibrosis include which of the following?

migraine medication use

diarrhea

hematuria

diabetes mellitus

migraine medication use

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Fluid located around the lungs is termed:

ascites

lung consolidation

pericardial effusion

plueral effusion

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Free air within the chest outside of the lungs is referred to as:

pneumothorax

lung consolidation

pulmonary sequestration

cystic adenomatoid malformation

pneumothorax

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The diagnostic or theraputic procedure where fluid is removed from the plueral space is referred to as:

paracentesis

thoracentesis

pneumothorax

pericardial centresis

thoracentesis

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Fluid located around the heart is termed:

ascites

lung consolidation

pericardial effusion

pleural effusoins

pericardial effusion

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During abdominal sonography on a 68 year old male, you suspect an exophytic mass arising from the stomach. Which technique will be most useful in analysis of this mass?

* perform compression sonography over the suspicious area

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You are performing an ultrasound to rule out the presence of acute appendicitis. Which of the following constitiutes an abnormal findings?

A)appendix diameter greater than or equal to 6mm

B)noncompressible appendix

C)appendix diameter greater than or equal to 3mm

D) A and B only

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You are imaging the abdomen in a patient with abdominal pain and weight loss. You detect an area that is suspicious for a mass, but are considering the possiblity that the mass is a normal loop of bowel. What should you do?

* all of the above should be attempted

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You are imaging a patient with abdominal pain and detect multiple dilated fluid-filled loops of bowel. This is suspicious for which of the following?

A) obstruction

B) ileus

C) appendicitis

D) A and B

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A pleural effusion associated with infection, will sonographically appear:

complex

anechoic

septated

all of the above

The tissue comprising a lung consolidation can appear sonographically isoechoic to:

rectus abdominis

the liver

IVC

aorta

the liver

All of the following may be discovered sonographically within the chest except:

thymomas

lymphomas

bronchial infections

pleural effusions

bronchial infections

Which of the following complications would be most likely to occur post thoracentesis?

pneumobilia

hemathorax

hyrothorax

pneumothorax

A 35-year old female patient presents to the ultrasound department with a history of migraine medicine use, weight loss, nausea, and malaise. Sonographically, you visualize a 15 cm hypoechoic mass within the abdomen. Which of the following would be most likely?

intussesception

Volvulus

Retroperitoneal fibrosis

retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy

Retroperitoneal fibrosis

All of the following are potential causes of lung consolidation except:

hemorrhage

carcinoma

pulmonary sequestration

pneumonia

pulmonary sequestration

All of the following are advantages of an ultrasound of the chest except:

* The reflection of sound at the air tissue interface

All of the following are indicative of abnormal bowel except:

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Non-compressible bowel

Peristalsis

Pseudo-kidney

Peristalsis

This abnormality appears as a wedge shaped echo free area along the posterior-lateral aspect of the lung:

Ascites

Pnuemothorax

Pleural effusion

Pleural fibrosis

Pleural effusion

## Footnote A 6 month old female presents to your department with vomiting ABD pain and blood in her stool. Give the BEST diagnosis. Intussusception Pyloric stenosis Normal bowel patterns Volvulus

Intussusception