HomeStretch CRACK vol 1. GI Flashcards
Esophageal anatomy
A ring and B ring and Z line
bonus - what esophagitis shows concentric rings?
A: muscular ring above the vestibule
B: mucosal ring Below the vestibule; thin constriction at the GE junction - ShatzB ring
Z line: squamoclumnar junction
High stricture + hiatal hernia = ?
What’s the buzzword for this entity?
Barrett
buzzword = reticular mucosal pattern
candidiasis appearence on barium swallow
What else looks like that exactly?
discrete plaque-like lesions, nodularity, fold thickening and shaggy appearence
Glycogenic ancothosis looks exactly the same in an asymptomatic elderly patient.
Herpes, CMV and HSV esophageal barium
Herpers has a halo - small and multiple ulcers with halo
CMV = HIV = large, flat ovoid ulcer
Esophageal diverticulum
- Zenker - (posterosuperior - above cricopharyngeus) pulsion divirticulum posteriorly via site of weakness called Killian dehisence in the hypopharynx
- Killian-Jamieson - anterolateral and more inferior (below cricopharygneus), this one is in the cervical esophagus; least common
- Pulsion diverticulum are Pseudodiverticuli (i.e. don’t have all three layers of esophagus and therefore won’t empty).
- Traction diverticulum - mid esophagus, triangular in shape, TB, will empty since it is a true diverticulum
Carny’s Triad
Carney’s Eat Garbage
- Chondroma (pulmonary)
- Extra adrenal pheo
- GIST
Hidebound bowel or stack of coins
Scleroderma
Fold reversal
CeliaC
clover leaf sign
healed peptic ulcer
Ribbon bowel
GVHD
Lane Hamilton Syndrome
Idiopathic pulmonary Hemosiderosis, which is associated with celec sprue
Rigler’s Triad
pneuobilia, obstruction and ectopic location of glasstone
Note that rigler’s sign (pneumoperitoneum) is not included here
Spigelian Hernia
Lateral ventral hernia
Hernia along the Semilunar line (S for S)
Grynfelt-Lesshaft Hernia
Petit Hernia
Littre Hernia
Amyand Hernia
Richter Hernia
- Grynfelt-Lesshaft Hernia = super lumbar hernia (more common)
- Petit Hernia = inferior lumbat hernia
- Littre Hernia = hernia with meckel diverticulum in it!
- Amyand Hernia = hernia with Appendinx in it!
- Richter Hernia = contains only one wall of bowel and does not obstruct but can strangulate. . .
Howship-Romberg Sign
Obturator hernia causing characteristic paresthesia along inner though down to knee