Pancreas And Slpeen Flashcards
Common congenital variant that serves a predisposition to pancratitis
Pancreas divisum
Ventral and dorsal ductal syatems fail to fuse
Mcc of chronic pancreatitis
Alcohol abuse
Mcc of acute pancreatitis
Gallstone passage/impaction
Mc mets to the pancreas
Renal cell ca
Bronchogenic ca
Mc pancreatic cystic lesions
Pseudocysts
Benign tumors of pancreas associated woth hippel-lindau syndrome
Serous cystadenomas
Mcc appearance is honeycomb microcysts
Mc in tail and usually in women
Mucinous cystic neoplasm
Rare, prsents as large encapsulated mass with mixture cystic, hemorrhagic and solid components
Solid pseudopapillary tumor
Unilocular cysts smaller than _____ mm virtually always benign
10mm
Asplenia
Bilateral right sidedness
Midline liver
Bilateral 3 lobed lungs
Ivemark syndrome
Mc malignant tumor of the spleen
Lymphoma
Melanoma mets in spleen appear
Cystic
Foci of hemosiderin deposition in spleen from small hemorrhages
Gamma gandy bodies
Mc primary neoplasm of spleen
Hemangioma
Mc malignancy arising in the spleen
Angiosarcoma
Multiple well defined enhancing nodules or diffuse spleen abnormality
Well defined cysts with thick, densely calcified wall
Post traumatic splenic cyst
Spherical mother cyst with smaller daughter cyst
Hydatid cysts
Causes of multiple splenic calcification
Histoplasmosis Tuberculosis Healed pneumocystis jirovecu Phleboliths Hemangiomas
Nasopharynx
Skull base to soft palate
Oropharynx
Soft palate to hyoid bone
Hypopharynx
Hyoid bone to the cricopharyngeus
Proressive atrophy of smooth muscles and prodressive fibrosis of affected tissues
Scleroderma
Diverticulum in the hypopharynx just proximal to the Upoer esophageal sphincter
Zenker diverticulum
Diverticulum on the anterolateral wall of the proximal cervical esophagus
Killian-jamieson diverticula