Most Common Flashcards
MC adrenal mass
Adrenal cortical adenoma
MC primary tumors to metastasize to adrenals
lung, breast, melanoma, GI, thyroid, renal
MC primary malignant tumors to metastasize to the adrenal gland
lung
breast
melanoma
kidney
MCC of Addison disease (in US)
idiopathic atrophy, probably autoimmune
MC adrenal tumor to hemorrhage spontaneously
pheochromocytoma
MC causes of adrenal hemorrhage in adults
blunt trauma and infection
MCC of adrenal calcifications
Previous adrenal hemorrhage
MC calcified adrenal mass in adults
Adrenal pseudocyst from previous hemorrhage
- usually unilocular with wall calcification (note: endothelial cysts tend to be multilocular with septal calcification)
MC etiology of adrenal cysts
endothelial
2nd MC: pseudocyst
least common: parasitic
MCC of parasitic adrenal cyst
echinococcus
MC endocrine syndrome caused by adrenal ca
Cushing
MC renal fusion anomaly
Horseshoe kidney
MC renal anomaly
Horseshoe kidney
MC form of simple renal ectopy
Pelvic kidney
MC variation of crossed ectopy
Crossed-fused ectopy
MC abdominal masses in infants and children
enlarged kidneys due to hydronephrosis or cystic renal disease
MCC of an abdominal mass in a neonate
congenital UPJ obstruction
2nd MCC of abdominal mass in the neonate
multicystic dysplastic kidney disease (MCC: hydronephrosis)
MC solid renal mass in adults
RCC
MC renal mass
simple cyst / simple cortical cyst
MC curable cause of hypertension
Renal artery stenosis
MC causes of stenosis of the main renal artery
atherosclerosis and FMD
Thrombosis of the renal artery occurs most commonly as a complication of?
severe atherosclerosis
MCC of renovascular hypertension in patients <40 yrs
Fibromuscular disease (FMD) of renal arteries
2nd MC of renovascular hypertension
FMD (atherosclerosis ata iyong MC)
MCC of hypertension in children
Fibromuscular disease (FMD) of renal arteries
MCC of hypertension among children
acquired renal parenchymal disease
MC etiology of renovascular hypertension among children
FMD
2nd MC etiology for renovascular hypertension in children
renal artery stenosis due to NF1
MC type of fibromuscular dysplasia
medial dysplasia
MC subtype of dysplasia
medial fibroplasia
MCC of chronic pyelonephritis in children
VUR of infected urine
MC etiologic agent of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
Proteus mirabilis
MC site of extrapulmonary TB
Urinary tract
MC component of staghorn calculi
Struvite
Account for 70% of staghorn calculi
Triple phosphates (struvite + apatite)
- the remainder, cystine and uric acid
MCC of acute flank pain
renal colic
MCC of filling defects in the collecting system/ureter
Calculi
2nd MC primary renal malignancy
TCC
MC urinary tract neoplasm
TCC
MC location of bladder diverticula
posterolaterally near the UVJ
MC location of bladder diverticula
trigonal area
MC location of secondary bladder diverticula (pedia)
paraureteral area
Pedia Caffey’s:
MC location of iatrogenic diverticula
anterior wall at the site of a previous vesicostomy or suprapubic drainage catheter and UVJ after ureteral implantation
MCC of vesicocolonic fistula
diverticulitis
(Dunnick: 2nd MC colon cancer)
Dunnick:
Most frequently involved segment of the large bowel in colovesical fistulae
rectosigmoid
Dunnick:
Most commonly encountered CT finding in enterovesical and colovesical fistulae
small amount of air in the bladder lumen
MC location of contrast extravasation in extraperitoneal bladder rupture
retropubic space of Retzius
MCC of inflammatory strictures
gonorrhea
Dunnick:
MC area of occurrence of gonorrheal strictures / MC site of urethral strictures in schistosomiasis
bulbar / bulbous
Dunnick:
MC site of instrument-related strictures
bulbomembranous region
MC complication of urethral stricture
false passage
MC site of urethral ca
anterior urethra
MC site of diverticulum of the female urethra
posterolateral wall of the mid-portion of the short female urethra
MC site of traumatic injury to the posterior urethra
junction between prostatic and membranous
Caffey’s:
Most commonly injured area of the urethra
membranous (owing to its fixation by the urogenital diaphragm)
MC site of prostate ca
peripheral zone
MC type of prostate ca
adenoca
MC cysts of the prostate
cysts associated with BPH
MCC of painful penile induration, focal or generalized priapism
Peyronie disease
MC causative agents of acute epididymo-orchitis
E. coli (MC)
S aureus
gonococcus
TB
MC testicular neoplasms in males 15-44 yrs
Testicular germ cell tumors
MC tumors to metastasize to the testis
Renal, prostate
MCC of painless scrotal swelling
Hydrocele
MC correctable cause of male infertility
Varicocele
MC entities to produce / Major causes of cortical nephrocalcinosis
CGN
acute cortical necrosis
oxalosis
Dunnick:
MC etiologies to produce medullary nephrocalcinosis
hyperparathyroidism and RTA
Dunnick:
Probably the mcc of nephrolithiasis
idiopathic hypercalciuria
Dunnick:
MC chemical composition of urinary stones
CaOx and CaPO4 (mixed) > CaOx (pure) > “triple phosphate” (struvite + apatite) > uric acid > CaPO4 (pure) > cystine
Dunnick:
Account for majority of “lucent” stones
uric acid
- Insufficiently radiopaque to be seen on abdominal radiograph
Dunnick:
MCC of secondary oxalosis
small bowel disease
Dunnick:
MC type of bladder calculi in children in developing countries
uric acid stones