organs

Question 1

blood film post splenectomy?

Blood film in hyposplenism:

Answer 1

Howell-Jolly bodies
Pappenheimer bodies
Poikilocytes (Target cells)
Erythrocyte containing siderotic granules
Heinz bodies

Question 2

A 45-year-old obese woman presents with right upper quadrant abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. She has a family history of gallstone disease. Physical examination revealed a positive Murphy’s sign. Abdominal ultrasound showed gallstones in the thickened gallbladder. The surgeon decided to carry out a laparoscopic cholecystectomy to remove the gallbladder. During the surgery, he locates and dissects the hepatobiliary triangle in order to safely ligate and divide two structures.

what are these two structures

Answer 2

The hepatobiliary triangle is of clinical importance during laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the safe ligation and division of the cystic duct and cystic artery

Calot’s triangle (cystohepatic triangle) is a small anatomical space in the abdomen.

It is located at the porta hepatis of the liver – where the hepatic ducts and neurovascular structures enter/exit the liver.

Question 3

what artery links the Superior mesenteric artery and inferior mesenteric artery

Answer 3

marginal artery

Ascending colon: ileocolic and right colic arteries
Transverse colon: middle colic artery
Descending and sigmoid colon: inferior mesenteric artery

Question 4

venoum and caudate lobe and vena cava same side posteriorly

Answer 4

The ligamentun Venosum and Caudate is on same side as Vena Cava [posterior].