Pathoma: Appendix & IBD

Question 1

What is the most common cause of appendicitis in children and adults?

Answer 1

Children: lymphoid hyperplasia

Adults: fecolith

Question 2

What is guarding?

Answer 2

When patients are in extreme pain, they’ll flex their abdominal muscles to protect from further injury.

Question 3

Recurrent bouts of bloody diarrhea is suggestive of __________.

Answer 3

IBD

Question 4

Crypt abscesses are typical of ________, while lymphoid aggregates in granulomas are typical of ___________.

Answer 4

UC; Crohn’s

Question 5

Risk of colon cancer in UC is proportional to ________________.

Answer 5

extent of colonic involvement and duration of diseease

Question 6

Colonoscopic evaluation of someone with Crohn’s will display what classic pattern?

Answer 6

Cobblestoning of the mucosa

Question 7

What renal effect can arise in someone with Crohn’s?

Answer 7

Calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis, because calcium is not usually absorbed by the gut but is in a damaged ileum.

Question 8

Loss of haustra occurs in ___________.

Answer 8

ulcerative colitis