Hepatobiliary Flashcards
Name of system that divides liver into multiple functional segments
Couinaud System
Cantile’s Line
Divides liver into functional left and right lobes. From IVC to middle of gallbladder fossa
MC vascular variant in the liver
Replaced right hepatic artery (from SMA)
MC biliary variant
Right posterior segmental into left hepatic duct
Bare areas of liver
1) bare area-superopst
2) gb fossa
3) porta hepatitis
What is result of injury to bare area
RP bleed
Light bulb sign
hemangioma
target sign
echogenic center surrounded by hypoechoic rim
reverse target sign
hypoechoic core with hyperechoic rim
double target sign
hypo center with surrounding vascular rim following by surrounding edema
- which is silly bc a “target’ sign is hyperecho center with hypo ring.
- aka abscess (pyogenic or amebic)
organism of amebiasis
entamoeba histolytica
ddx amebic abscess
- post treatment met
- pyogenic abscess
- infarct
- hydatid cyst
- biliary cystadenocarcindoma
organism of hydatid cysts
Echinococcus granulosus=MC. Echinogoccus multilocularis (alveolar)-less common but aggressive, tumor-like form.
-definitive host=dog/feox. Intermediate host=human, sheep or wild rodents.
MC causes pyogenic abscess
Klebsiella, E. Coli (multiple), SA
MC causes fungal abscess
Candida (MC), cyrptococcus, aspergillus
Amebiasis-mc locations
99% GI tract. Liver 2nd MC. Then peritoneum, pleural space, lung, pericardium, skin, brain.
When do you get maximum signal drop out on chemical shift?
50% fat, 50% water
Spared organs 1˚ vs 2˚ hemochromatosis
Primary-involves Pancreas, spleen spared (vice versa 2˚)
Von Meyenburg complex
numerous biliary hamartomas, uniform size (<15 mm)
flip flop pattern
classic acute BC imaging finding on PV phase: low attenuation centrally, high peripherally
Who gets nutmeg liver
- budd chiari
- hepatic veno-occlusive disease
- right hear failure
- constrictive pericarditis
Who gets massive caudate lobe hypertrophy?
- budd chiari
- primary sclerosis cholangitis
- primary biliary cirrhosis
cryptogenic cirrhosis
unknown cause of cirrhosis. MC nonEtOH fatty liver disease
MC reasons for liver tx
- hep C (MC)
- EtOH liver disease
- cryptogenic cirrhosis
Difference in liver transplant btw adults and kids
- adults-right lobe implanted
- kids-left lobe (little=left)
Liver transplant contraindications
- extrahepatic malignancy
- advanced cardiopulmonary disease
- active substance abuse
- PVT not a true CI but makes sx more difficult
MCC cirrhosis world-wide
Schistosomiasis
organism of schistosomiasis
Schisotoma (parasite)
“tortus shell/turtle back”
periportal fibrosis with septal and capsular calcification pathognomonic for schistosomiasis fibrosis
right posterior hepatic notch sign
focal indentation of the posteroinferior surface of the right lobe of the liver at the level of the right kidney secondary to enlargement of caudate lobe and atrophy of right lobe
caudate/right hepatic lobe ratio
> 0.75
Which lobe is more common in hepatic abscesses and why?
Right (75%) via longer right power vein (ascending hematogenous sources)
Definition of cirrhosis by pressure. When does variceal bleeding & ascites occur?
PV > HV by 6-8 mmHg. Varices + ascites at >12mmHg