Lesson 3 (Part 2)

Question 1

What does the gastroesophogeal junction look like?

Answer 1

A target

Question 2

Where is the location of the gastroesophogeal junction?

Answer 2

Superior to the celiac trunk

Question 3

Diaphragmatic crura

Answer 3

Linear muscular portions of the diaphragm

Question 4

What are the normal congenital variations of the aorta? (5)

Answer 4

1. 3 renal arteries
2. Common hepatic artery can come off the SMA
3. Right hepatic artery can come off the SMA
4. Left hepatic artery originates from the left gastric artery
5. Transposition

Question 5

Congenital

Answer 5

What you have from birth

Question 6

Transposition

Answer 6

Flipped

Question 7

What is the location of the IVC?

Answer 7

Right of the midline

Question 8

Where does the IVC bifurcates?

Answer 8

L5

- aorta is L4

Question 9

What is the function of the IVC?

Answer 9

To drain blood

Question 10

Where does the SVC drain blood from? (4)

Answer 10

1. Head
2. Neck
3. Thorax
4. Upper extremities

Question 11

Where does the IVC drain blood? (2)

Answer 11

1. Lower trunk

2. Lower extremities

Question 12

Where does the IVC return the blood to?

Answer 12

Right atrium of the heart

Question 13

Where does the right hepatic vein empty?

Answer 13

The right lobe of the liver

Question 14

What does the middle hepatic vein empty?

Answer 14

Caudate lobe

Question 15

What does the left hepatic vein empty?

Answer 15

The left lobe of the liver

Question 16

Where do the renal veins empty into?

Answer 16

IVC

Question 17

What does the right gonadal vein empty into?

Answer 17

The lateral aspect of the IVC

Question 18

What does the left gonadal vein empty into?

Answer 18

Left renal vein

Question 19

What do the common iliac veins empty? (2)

Answer 19

1. Lower extremities

2. Pelvis

Question 20

In a sagittal IVC scan, what is seen posterior to the IVC?

Answer 20

The right renal artery

Question 21

What is the size of the IVC?

Answer 21

< 3.7 cm

Question 22

What happens to the walls of the IVC during respiration?

Answer 22

They change shape

Question 23

What is the echogenicity of the IVC? (2)

Answer 23

1. Anechoic lumen
2. Echoic walls
   - not as bright as in the aorta

Question 24

Congenital anomalies in the IVC (3)

Answer 24

1. Duplication of the IVC
   - statistically most common
2. Transposition
   - left sided IVC
3. Absence of a portion of the IVC
   - rare

Question 25

Normal variants of the IVC (2)

Answer 25

1. Multiple veins

2. Left renal veins travelling posterior to the aorta