Other GI Flashcards
What is the most common site for lymphoma in the gastrointestinal tract?
The stomach is the most common site for all GI lymphoma.
Is primary GI lymphoma common?
Very rare; usually a manifestation of diffuse nodal disease.
What is a distinguishing feature of lymphoma in the GI tract?
Always has significant lymphadenopathy.
What conditions are associated with GI lymphoma?
Celiac sprue, Crohn’s disease, Wegner’s, SLE, and AIDS.
What type of lymphoma is most common in the GI tract?
Most commonly non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) of B cell type; almost never Hodgkin lymphoma.
What is the diagnostic method for GI lymphoma?
Abdominal CT and node sampling.
Treatment for GI lymphoma?
- Treatment for GI lymphoma controversial. Some say GI lymphoma = sign of systemic disease requires chemo
- However, non-metastatic colonic/small bowel lymphoma involving can be treated with surgery 1st
- Non-metastatic colon and small bowel lymphoma resection with lymphadenectomy then CHOP-R
- If 1st or 2nd portion of duodenum, gastric, anal lymphoma, pancreatic, thyroid, treatment = CHOP-R
- Metastatic disease CHOP-R
Chemo for non-hodgkins lymphoma – CHOP-R – cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone, rituximab
40% 5-year survival rate
What are the symptoms of typhoid enteritis in children?
RLQ pain, bloody diarrhea, fever, maculopapular rash, and leukopenia. Large mesenteric LN
What is the treatment for typhoid enteritis?
Bactrim.
What are plica circulares?
They are structures present on all small bowel, wrapping circumferentially around the bowel.
What are plicae semilunares?
Transverse bands that form haustra along the colon.
What are taeni coli?
Three bands that run longitudinally along the colon. At rectosigmoid junction they become broad
What is a true diverticulum?
Meckel’s diverticulum and traction diverticula in the esophagus.
What is Meckel’s diverticulum?
A true diverticulum resulting from failure of closure of the omphalomesenteric duct (persistent vitelline duct)
What is the most common type of tissue found in Meckel’s diverticulum?
Gastric mucosa is the most common and can lead to symptoms like bleeding.
Pancreas tissue: diverticulitis
What is the Rule of 2’s regarding Meckel’s diverticulum?
2 feet from the IC valve, twice as common in males, 2% of the population, 2% symptomatic, presents in the first 2 years of life.
What is the most common cause of painless lower gastrointestinal bleeding in children?
Meckel’s diverticulum.
Adults present with obstruction
Meckel’s treatment
If bleeding is a symptom (ileum ulcer) = gastric mucosa = ulcer is on the small bowel not in meckel’s No longer advocated to perform segmental resection of bowel. Diverticulectomy is new standard.
Dx: Meckel’s Tc scan
Tx:
Any Meckel’s found incidentally on imaging without symptoms do nothing
Asymptomatic found incidentally intra-op don’t resect unless:
- Found in children diverticulectomy
- Palpable abnormality formal resection
- > 2 cm formal resection
Symptomatic – bleeding, hernia, SBO, diverticular inflammation
- Surgery for all
Perform diverticulectomy unless any below, these need formal resection
Need segmental resection for:
* No longer supported to performed segmental resection for bleeding
* Complicated diverticulitis (perf)
* Palpable abnormality at base
* Inflammation/diverticulitis at base
* Large diameter base > 2 cm or Neck > 1/3 diameter of normal bowel. Concern for narrowing lumen with diverticulectomy
What is a carcinoid tumor?
A neuroendocrine tumor, most commonly found in the small bowel.
Will see Fibrosis and desmoplastic reaction on CT
Associated with tricuspid regurg R heart failure
Causes low Niacin (B3) levels so can cause Pellagra diarrhea, dermatitis (rough scaly skin, glossitis, angular stomatitis), dementia, and/or hypoalbuminemia.
Tumor size correlates with likelihood of metastasis, larger the size, more likely it will metastasize
Octreotide scan best for localization
Will also stain positive for synaptophysin
Pathology: Kulchitsky cells (neural crest cells)
Site of highest metastasis rate and highest carcinoid syndrome rate ileum
Site of highest 5YS 95% - Appendix
If patient has carcinoid syndrome with liver mets debulking as much tumor as possible is a good treatment. All need cholecystectomy.
What is the most common site for carcinoid tumors?
Ileum, followed by rectum and appendix.
MC appendix tumor
MC tumor of small bowel
What are the symptoms associated with carcinoid syndrome?
Facial flushing, asthma, hypotension, and diarrhea.
Facial flushing - kallikrein
Asthma and hypotension – bradykinin
Diarrhea - Serotonin
What is the best test for screening carcinoid tumors?
Chromogranin A is best test for screening, recurrence, and response to treatment
What is the gold standard test for detecting metastatic carcinoid?
24-hour urinary 5-HIAA test is highly specific for detecting metastatic carcinoid and considered the gold standard test to establish the diagnosis
- Not sensitive for detecting non-functional carcinoid
- Not all carcinoid will produce this!!!
What is the treatment for carcinoid syndrome?
Octreotide – Used to for both Metastatic carcinoid AND carcinoid syndrome
- If has carcinoid syndrome and operating, need to start octreotide before surgery
- If planning on starting octreotide, patient will need a cholecystectomy (increase stones) will especially need it if liver mets (plan for ablation or embolization)
What is the treatment for gastric neuroendocrine tumors?
Nonfunctional: no carcinoid syndrome here
Work up: EGD with Bx, Gastrin level, Gastric pH test
- Need to stop PPI before obtaining gastrin level, otherwise will have elevated gastrin level. Ok to be on H2 blocker.
What is the treatment for Type I gastric neuroendocrine tumors?
Type I - MC type 80%. pernicious anemia/chronic atrophic gastritis. High gastrin levels, pH >4.
Tx: If < 2 cm endoscopic resection or just follow up with EGD surveillance
Tx: If > 2 cm or multifocal antrectomy
What is the treatment for Type II gastric neuroendocrine tumors?
Type II 5% – associated with Zollinger Ellenson. Has small risk of cancer. High gastrin levels, pH < 2.
- Tx: Localize gastrinoma usually EGD resection is sufficient
- Also need to work up for MEN I
What is the treatment for Type III gastric neuroendocrine tumors?
Type III – High malignant potential. Normal gastrin level. Often present with mets. Need octreotide scan to stage.
- Tx: Should be treated like gastric CA. Partial/total Gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy
Biopsies should be stained for Chromogranin A and synaptophysin
Get Serum gastrin and Chromogranin A
Endoscopic ultrasound is preferred for assessing both tumor size and depth of penetration
What are the main contributing factors to short gut syndrome?
Loss of bowel, particularly the terminal ileum, and hypersecretion of acid.
-hypersecretion of acid decreases pH -> increases intestinal motility-> interferes with fat absorption -> steatorrhea
Sudan red stain checks for fecal fat
Complications of short gut: nephrolithiasis (hyperoxaluria), cholelithiasis (low bili reabsorption), gastric acid hypersecretion (transient), bacterial overgrowth
>180 cm of SB Don’t require TPN
90 cm require TPN for at least a year generally
< 60 cm require TPN for life
Treatment for short gut syndrome?
Tx: Antidiarrheal + fluid and electrolyte management + TPN = first line
- Loperamide, diphenoxylate, PPI/H2blocker, b12/FOLATE
- High carb, high protein, low fat diet (Medium chain fatty acid is ok) rich in glutamine
- H2 blocker and PPI b/c resection of small bowel causes hypergastrinemia, increases acid, decreases digestion
- Growth hormone and teduglutide (GLP-2 analog) has pro-absorptive effects on intestines
- Octreotide use is off label used to treat diarrhea, should not be used long term. Causes steatorrhea, and gallstones
- Cholestyramine tx for nephrolithiasis and helps with diarrhea, reduces fat
What are the indications for intestinal transplant?
Cholestatic liver disease (cirrhosis) from TPN, repeated episodes of bacteremia from central lines, and no availability of veins for TPN (recurrent thrombosis/stenosis).
Appendix mucinous neoplasm
2nd MC tumor of appendix, #1 is carcinoid
MCC of death is SBO. Causes SBO by fibrosis
If there is presence of mucin outside the appendix, like mucinous ascites, this is a clinical syndrome called Pseudomyxoma peritonei
Tx for Appendix mucinous neoplasm
- Appendectomy is the operation of choice +/- cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC
- These DO NOT need a right hemicolectomy. Does not confer survival advantage. Low risk of lymph node mets.
- The question is whether the patient will need cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC or not
- If just the appendix, no extra-appendiceal involvement, found incidentally on pathology with negative margins You are done after appendectomy
- If extra-appendiceal mucin present then you will need cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC
- If Mucinous adenocarcinoma, this is different, (path = signet ring cells) is found Right hemicolectomy
GI neuroendocrine tumor (carcinoid)
Rectal/colon/small bowel/duodenum
GI neuroendocrine tumor (carcinoid)
T1 (<2 cm) lesions confined to the mucosa or submucosa have a low risk of metastatic spread and are amenable to local treatments.
Rectal
- <2 cm, T1 (submucosa)
o WLE if in low rectum (0-5 cm from anal verge)
o Endoscopic resection (5-15 cm from anal verge)
- > 2 cm or invades muscularis propria, T2 APR vs LAR
Colon
- < 1 cm, T1 – endoscopic resection
- > 1 cm or invasion of muscularis propria segmental resection with lymph nodes
Small bowel
- On CT this will show classic mesenteric nodes with calcification
- Formal resection with lymph nodes
Duodenal
- Periampullary very aggressive whipple
- < 1 cm endoscopic resection
- 1-2 cm WLE with negative margin
- > 2 cm formal resection with LN
What is Pseudomyxoma peritonei?
Can come from appendix, ovary or small bowel
- cytoreductive surgery + HIPEC. Remove ALL tumor.
- Need to debulk to < 2.0 mm !!!!!
- Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemo (mitomycin and 5FU)
- Mucinous ovarian CA will need TAH-BSO
HIPEC is being used for malignant peritoneal mesothelioma
Appendicitis
Abdominal pain 1st! then nausea. If it’s the opposite order = gastroenteritis
Periumbilical pain = visceral. RLQ pain = somatic sensory of peritoneum
Children have higher rate of perforation
Laparoscopic is associated with lower incisional infections however, it has increased risk with deep orgain space infection when compared to open
Operate on all appendicitis in pregnancy regardless of trimester
Abscess < 3 cm just do IV abx. > 3 cm Drain
If going for appendectomy, and you find normal appendix still perform appendectomy
Normal appendix < 2 mm wall and < 6 mm dilation
Appendicitis with phlegmon = perforated non-op management
Perforated appendicitis If not sick, and especially if delayed non-op management. Most perfs will be managed non-op unless minimal inflammation, no abscess to drain, presented early
If patient has perforated appendicitis All need colonoscopy at 6 weeks at the minimum
- Routine interval appendectomy is no longer recommended
- If appendicolith is present, offer interval appy
Stool from wound after appendectomy = cecal fistula non-op. Usually low output. 75% close spontaneously
Incidental appendectomy for:
- Children undergoing chemo
- Crohn’s without gross involvement of cecum
- Disabled Quadriplegic
- Travel to remote area without medical/surgical care
Uncomplicated appendicitis = no perforation AND no appendicolith
Non-op management for uncomplicated appendicitis when compared to an operation
- Has about a 25% failure rate at 1 year will ultimately require appendectomy
- Complication rate of non-op is lower than appendectomy
- Overall societal (includes time off work) costs are higher with an operation
- Have a higher readmission rate within 1 year recurrent appendicitis
- Higher length of stay
What is the treatment for acute mesenteric adenitis?
Acute mesenteric adenitis = ileitis
Associated with MC #1 Yersinia enterocolitica, Helicobacter jejuni, Campylobacter jejuni, and Salmonella or Shigella
Preceded by URI
See lymphadenopathy in small bowel mesentery = key
Don’t biopsy
What is the primary function of the colon?
Secretes K and absorbs Na (Na/K ATPase), absorbs water (mostly right colon)
Retroperitoneal – ascending, descending, sigmoid, rectum
What is the marginal artery of Drummond?
It connects the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and inferior mesenteric artery (IMA).
Travels near colon,