L2 LGBP 2 Flashcards
Cholelithiasis
Gall stones
Primary cause of biliary obstruction
Gall stones
Primary feature of Primary biliary cirrhosis
nonsuppurative inflammatory destruction of medium intrahepatic ducts
Common factor of Nodular hyperplasia
focal or diffuse alteration in blood supply causing obliteration of portal veins and increase in arterial supply
Concerns with benign liver neoplasms
Mimic HCC
Subcapsular hemorrhage
May turn into HCC
Hepatic adenoma population
young women using contraceptives
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ranking cause of death
3rd most common cause of cancer deaths
Most common primary cancers (4)
Colon, Breast, Lung, pancreas
Pancreas exocrine comes from
acinar cells (enzymes used in digestion)
When is chronic pancreatitis detecible
Only once patient develops diabetes mellitus
Pancreatic cancers rank cause of death
4th
Trousseau sign
What is it
What is it a sign of
Thrombophlebitis: formation of platelet aggregation factors and procagulants from pancreatic tumor
Precurso lesion for pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias