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Where types of abnormalities occur in the GI tract?

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What are the general effects of pathology in large bowel?

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What are the congenital disorders?

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What is this?

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Congenital defect: atresia

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Define Hirschprung’s disease. Who gets it? How does it present? What is it associated with? What oncogenes and genomic markers related to it?

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What modality is this? What is it showing?

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Barium scan, Hirschprung’s disease

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How do you diagnose Hirschprung’s disease?

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What are the mechanical disorders?

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Define volvulus. What does it cause? Where does it commonly occur?

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Where does diverticular disease occur? What happens?

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Can be a difficult disease to treat.

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What is this? What scan is this?

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Diverticular disease - barium enema

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What is this

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Ballooning out of the wall - diverticular disease

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What are the complications of diverticular disease?

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What are the inflammatory disorders of the large bowel?

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What causes infectious colitis?

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What are the effects of infections?

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Define pseudomembranous colitis. What is it caused by?

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Describe the picture.

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Very erythematous. Wet cornflakes - pseudomembrane

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How do you diagnose and treat pseudomembranous colitis?

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What is this?

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Pseudomembranous colitis

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Describe ischaemic colitis/infarction?

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Describe the aetiology of ischaemic colitis?

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What is this?

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Ischaemic bowel

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What is this?

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Ischaemic bowel

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What are the idiopathic IBDs?
Crohns and UC - Diagnosis of exclusion
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Describe the aetiology of IBD?
Unsure.
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What are the clinical features of CIBD?
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Who gets Crohn's?
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What is affected in Crohn's disease?
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What other features would you expect to see in Crohns Disease?
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What are the extra-intestinal effects of Crohn's disease?
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What is this'
Skip lesion in crohn's
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Granuloma in Crohn's
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Who does UC affect?
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Where in the intestine does UC affect?
Does not affect small bowel
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What are the complications of UC?
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Extra inessential uc signs?
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What is this?
UC - no skip lesions
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Not transmural - UC
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Crypt abscesses
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What are the tumours of the colon and rectum?
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What is the difference between neoplastic and non-neoplastic tumours?
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Hyperplastic polyp - not linked to cancer
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Hyperplastic polyp.
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Define adenocarcinomas.
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Tubular adenoma
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Villous adenoma
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Villous adenoma - carpet
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What are the risk factors for cancer from polyps?
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Are adenoma precursors of cancer?
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What are the symptoms of adenomas?
Usually none Maybe bleeding or anaemia
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What familial causes adenomas?
FAH and HNOCC
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What is the inheritance pattern of APC? What part is most affected? How many polyps are seen? What chromosomes are involved? How often do these patients develop cancer?
* **Autosomal dominant - average onset is 25 years old** * **Adenomatous polyps, mostly colorectal** * **Minimum 100 polyps, average ~1,000 polyps** * **chromosome 5q21, APC tumour suppressor gene** * **virtually 100% will develop cancer within 10 to 15 years; 5% periampullary Ca**
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FAP
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Gardners Syndrome
* **Same clinical, pathological, and etiologic features as FAP, with high Ca risk** * **Distinctive** ***extra-intestinal*** **manifestations:** –**multiple osteomas of skull & mandible** –**epidermoid cysts** –**desmoid tumors** –**dental caries, unerrupted supernumery teeth** –**post-surgical mesenteric fibromatoses**
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Describe the genetics of HNPCC.
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What it the onset and distributions of HNPCC?
–**Onset of colorectal cancer at an early age** –**High frequency of carcinomas proximal to splenic flexure** –**Poorly differentiated and mucinous carcinoma more frequent** –**Multiple synchronous cancers** –**Presence of extracolonic cancers (endometrium, prostate, breast, stomach)**
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Who gets colorectal carcinoma?
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What is the aetiology of colorectal carcinoma?
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Polyp - cancerous
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Pink - good Purple - bad INVASIVE CANCER
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What are the symptoms of cancer?
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How do we grade and stage carcinomas?
Moving away from Duke's
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Why is grading and staging important?
Tailor treatment and tell prognosis
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What is the role of pathology in cancers?
Tailor therapy

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