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Liver, Pancreas, Gallbladder Flashcards

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Follicular neoplasm or suspicious for a follicular neoplasm of FNAB

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Lobectomy

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Vaccination of patients undergoing splenectomy against OPSI

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2 weeks prior to surgery ( elective splenectomy)
Or
2 weeks after surgery ( emergent splenectomy)

Against: S. Pneumoniae , H. Influenzae type B, N. Meningitidis , Annual influenza vaccine.

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3
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Routine part of treatment for hepatic metastasis.

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Resection

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Law which states that a palpable gallbladder and painless jaundice , the cause is less likely gallstones

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Courvoisier law

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5
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Most common congenital anomaly involving the pancreas (10% of children)

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Pancreas divisum

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Triad of right upper quadrant pain, upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, jaundice.

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Hemobilia

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Procedure of choice for acute cholecystitis

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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

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Most frequently encountered liver lesion over all?

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Hepatic cysts

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9
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Most common benign solid tumor of the liver

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Hemangioma

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Most common type of hepatic abscess in the Philippines?

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Amoebic in origin

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Component of the Child-Pugh score

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Encephalopathy
Ascites
Bilirubin
Albumin
Prothrombin

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12
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Most common vascular structure injured during the dissection of Calot’s triangle in laparoscopic cholecystectomy

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Right hepatic artery

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13
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Cystic dilatations of the extrahepatic and or intrahepatic biliary tree?

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Choledochal cyst

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Cancer associated with choledochal cyst such that excision is recommended whenever possible when high risk cysts are diagnosed.

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Cholangiocarcinoma

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Diagnostic for Zollinger - Ellison Syndrome

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Serum gastrin level.

In equivocal cases, when the gastrin level is not markedly elevated: Secreting stimulation test

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16
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Functional pancreatic tumor associated with symptomatic fasting hypoglycemia , a documented serum glucose <50 mg/dL , and relief of symptoms with the administration of glucose.

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Insulinoma

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17
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Standard practice for the surgical management of hernia in children?

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High ligation of the hernia sac

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Clinical features of hepatocellular carcinoma?

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  1. Older age
  2. Chronic alcoholic
  3. Cirrhosis symptoms
  4. Mass in the right lobe of the liver on imaging
  5. Elevated alpha fetoprotein level laboratory
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Clinical features of hepatocellular carcinoma

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  1. Older age
  2. Chronic alcoholic
  3. Cirrhosis symptoms
  4. Mass in the right lobe of the liver on imaging
  5. Elevated alpha fetoprotein level laboratory
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20
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Signs of abdominal wall hemorrhage associated with acute pancreatitis?

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  1. Cullens sign ( periumbilical ecchymosis)
  2. Grey turner sign ( flank ecchymosis)
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21
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Should be monitored in patients with cholestatic jaundice?

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  1. Electrocardiogram

Jaundice could be a presentation of cardiac disease due to liver congestion

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22
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Indication of surgical incurability for pancreatic cancer

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  1. Palpable mass
  2. Signs of metastasis in advance stages
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23
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Symptom of carcinoma of body and tail of pancreas?

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  1. Migratory thrombophlebitis
  2. Trousseau’s syndrome

Trosseau’s syndrome: spontaneous recurrent or migratory thromboses (superficial or deep) in people with occult or recently diagnosed visceral disease.

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24
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Definitive management for cholangitis?

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Endoscopic biliary decompression

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25
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Goals of management of late stage pancreatic cancer?

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Relieving gastric outlet obstruction and biliary obstruction

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26
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Primary histologic type of cholangiocarcinoma

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Adenocarcinoma ( >95%)

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27
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Inguinal hernia repair procedure with the least recurrence rate.

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Shouldice repair (2.2%)

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28
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The standard treatment for a patient with biliary colic and cholecystholithiasis by ultrasound is _________________.

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Cholecystectomy

29
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In patients with obstructive jaundice, what non-invasive procedure would help you in localizing the cause?

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Magnetic resonance pancreatography

30
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The most likely diagnosis in a 70yo male presenting with significant weight loss accompanied by progressive jaundice, anorexia, pruritus, and tea colored urine with positive Courvoisiers sign is?

A

Pancreatic head cancer

Courvoisier’s sign: palpable gallbladder + painless jaundice

31
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A 75 yo hypertensive but otherwise asymptomatic female during her annual executive check-up was found to have a 5mm stone in her thin walled gallbladder. What treatment option is best for her?

A

Close monitoring / Observation

32
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The most common solid benign mass in the liver is ?

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Hemangioma

33
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Choledochal cyst that are not completely excised during surgery may develop into ________?

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Cholangiocarcinoma

34
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A 15 yo/ M comes in because of fever and jaundice. On PE , a palpable mass is felt at the RUQ. Initial ultrasound shows a fusiform dilatation of the CBD ; the intrahepatic ducts are normal. The gallbladder is normal. The most likely diagnosis is ____________.

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Choledochal cyst

35
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Ligament that separates the left lateral and left medial segments of the liver?

A

Falciform ligament

Grossly, it separates the liver into a large right lobe and a small left lobe.

36
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Contents of the porta hepatis?

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  1. Common hepatic duct
  2. Proper hepatic artery
  3. Portal vein
37
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Laboratory markers of the liver synthetic function?

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  1. Serum albumin
  2. Prothrombin time
  3. Clotting factors except factor VIII
38
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Laboratory tests that indicate the integrity of hepatocellular membranes?

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AST & ALT

39
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Most definitive form of therapy for complications of portal hypertension

A

Orthotopic liver transplantation

40
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Etiologic agent of the most common form of liver abscess worldwide?

A

Entamoeba histolytica

41
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Absolute contraindication to a liver biopsy

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  1. Significant coagulopathy
  2. Biliary dilatation
  3. Suspicion of hemangioma or echinococcal cyst
42
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Benign solid neoplasm of the liver that has risk for spontaneous intraperitoneal rupture and malignant degeneration

A

Hepatic adenoma

43
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Classification of a cholangiocarcinoma located at the hepatic duct confluence + the left hepatic duct

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IIIB

BISMUTH -CORLETTE CLASSIFICATION OF CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA

I- distal to hepatic confluence
II- extend to hepatic confluence
IIIA- Confluence to + right hepatic duct (rAyt)
III B- confluence + left hepatic duct
IV- confluence + bilateral bilateral hepatic ducts

44
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Bismuth-Corlette classification for cholangiocarcinoma extending to and and involving the hepatic duct confluence!

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Type II

45
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Borders of the original triangle described by Calot

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  1. Cystic duct
  2. Common hepatic duct
  3. Cystic artery

In schwartz: triangle of Calot is the Hepatocystic triangle

46
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Borders of the hepatocystic triangle of Budde.

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  1. Cystic duct
  2. Common hepatic duct
  3. Inferior margin of the right lobe of the liver
47
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Gallstones associated with bacterial infections and bile stasis

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Brown pigment stones

48
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Most common presentation of gallstone disease characterized by recurrent biliary colic.

A

Chronic cholecystitis

49
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Abrupt cessation of deep inspiration while the examiner hooks their fingers under the patient’s right subcostal margin?

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Positive Murphy’s Sign

Sign of acute cholecystitis

50
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Type of cholidocholilithiasis where stones are formed in the gallbladder and migrate to the common bile duct

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Secondary choledocholithiasis

Primary choledocholithiasis are formed in the common bile duct

51
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Common hepatic duct obstruction caused by an extrinsic compression from an impacted stone in the cystic duct

A

Mirizzi Syndrome

52
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Gallstone ileus of the duodenum

A

Bouveret Syndrome

53
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Choledochal cyst type presenting as a saccular diverticulum

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Type 2

CHOLEDOCHAL CYST TYPES
I- Fusiform
2- Saccular
3- Choledochoceles
4a- Extrahepatic and Intrahepatic duct involvement
4b- Extrahepatic ducts only
5- zintrahepatic ducts only (Caroli disease)

54
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Peri umbilical ecchymosis seen in acute pancreatitis due to blood dissecting the falciform ligament.

A

Cullen sign

55
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Diagnosis of acute pancreatitis?

A

Two or more of the following:
1. Severe characteristic abdominal pain
2. Serum amylase / lipase >3x upper limit
3. Contrast - enhanced CT findings of acute pancreatitis

56
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Most common etiology of chronic pancreatitis?

A

TIGAR-O Classification
T: toxic / metabolic
I: Idiopathic
G: Genetic
A: Autoimmune
R: Recurrent and Severe Acute Pancreatitis
O: Obstructive

57
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Most important causes of pancreatic pseudocyst

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Pancreatitis (75%)
Trauma (25%)

58
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Only definitive and potentially curative treatment of periampullary pancreatic carcinoma

A

Whipple surgery ( Pancreatico-duodenectomy)

59
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Dermatitis associated with glucagonoma

A

Necrolytic migratory erythema

60
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Most common indication of splenectomy overall

A

Trauma

61
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Most common complication after splenectomy?

A

Infection

62
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Most feared complication after splenectomy?

A

Overwhelming Post splenectomy Infection (OPSI)

63
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Vaccination timing in emergent splenectomy?

A

2 weeks after surgery

Elective splenectomy 2 weeks before

64
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Most common surgical disorder of the small intestines

A

Mechanical small bowel obstruction

65
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Most common cause of obstruction in small intestines ?

A

Adhesions

66
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Charcot’s Triad

A

Jaundice, RUQ pain, Fever

67
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Raynaud’s Pentad

A

Charcot triad + Shock
- Jaundice
- RUQ Pain
- Fever
- Hypotension
- Tachycardia

Tx: IV Antibiotics + Fluid resuscitation, if not effective Emergency Biliary Decompression

68
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Boundaries of Passaro’s Triangle?

A
  1. Cystic duct
  2. Common bile duct
  3. Second & Third parts of the doudenum
  4. Neck & Body of pancreas

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