L10: visualising the bowel

Question 1

why can you distinguish the small bowel

Answer 1

lines going across it widthwise -mucosal folds

Question 2

what does the large bowel have on the outside

Answer 2

haustra

Question 3

what may air above the liver indicate

Answer 3

perforation of the diaphragm

Question 4

what is in the right iliac fossa

Answer 4

cecum

Question 5

what does barium swallow look at

Answer 5

oesophagus

stomach

Question 6

what does barium meal look at

Answer 6

oesophagus to the small intestine

Question 7

small bowel barium enema is for

Answer 7

the small intestine

Question 8

double contrast barium is for

Answer 8

the colon

Question 9

which contrast gives best mucosal detail

Answer 9

double contrast

Question 10

what happens to detail with a single contrast

Answer 10

poor mucosal detail -as lumen distended with barium

Question 11

what type of contrast would pick up an adenocarinoma

Answer 11

double contrast

Question 12

what does double contrast show

Answer 12

mucosa coated with barium and lumen distended with air

Question 13

what does barium have low sensitivity for

Answer 13

cancers

inflammation

Question 14

where is an apple core lesion seen

Answer 14

colorectal adenocarcinoma

Question 15

what is a capsule endoscopy

Answer 15

where the patient swallows a small capsule with a camera

Question 16

3 types of endoscopy for the large bowel

Answer 16

colonscopy
flexible sigmoidoscopy
proctoscopy

Question 17

does the jejunum or ileum have more prominent folds

Answer 17

jejunal

Question 18

in double contrast barium the lumen is distended with

Answer 18

air

Question 19

in double contrast barium the mucosa is distended with

Answer 19

barium

Question 20

in single contrast the lumen is distended with

Answer 20

barium