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