Quiz 4: Pancreas

Question 0

What is a possible complication of pancreatitis?

Answer 0

Abscess formation

Question 1

Single most common etiology of chronic pancreatitis

Answer 1

alcohol

Question 2

What are the elevated serum enzymes in pancreatitis?

Answer 2

amylase and lipase

Question 3

related to chelation of calcium salts with fatty acids liberated by the pancreatic enzymes

Answer 3

saponification

Question 4

peri-pancreatic fluid collection containing high concentrations of pancreatic enzymes within a defined fibrous wall and lacking an epithelial lining

Answer 4

pancreatic pseudocyst

Question 5

Usually unilocular, intra- or peri-pancreatic cyst containing heterogeneous material including old blood.

Answer 5

Pancreaticc pseudocyst

Question 6

no epithelial lining and contains cholesterol clefts, blood both fresh and clotted and hemosiderin laden macs

Answer 6

pancreatic pseudocyst

Question 7

collection of pus resulting from tissue necrosis, liquefaction, and infection, usu develop in pts with pancreatic pseduocysts that become infected

Answer 7

pancreatic absess

Question 8

Most likely pathogen in pancreatic abscess

Answer 8

E. coli, klebsiella pneumoniae, enterococcus faecalis, staph aureus, pseudomonas, proteus mirabilis, strep

Question 9

bacterial contamination of necrotic pancreatic tissue in the absence of abscess formation

Answer 9

infected necrosis

Question 10

most typical organisms isolated from infected necrosis and abscesses are

Answer 10

enteric bacteria and candida species

Question 11

3 benign tumors of the pancreas

Answer 11

pseudopapillary tumor, serous cystadenoma, mucinous cystadenoma

Question 12

2 malignant tumors of the exocrine pancreas

Answer 12

pancreatic adenocarcinoma and mucinous cystadenocarcinoma

Question 13

cystic epithelial neoplasms that occur almost exclusively in women

Answer 13

mucinous cystic neoplasm

Question 14

Most frequent cystic tumors of the pancreas

Answer 14

mucinous cystadenomas

Question 15

typically round, well-demarcated, avg 8cm, with solid and cystic areas, often with hemorrhage noted on cut sections

Answer 15

solid pseudopapillary tumors

Question 16

sheets of cells which usu have uniform nuclei and eosinophilic or clear cytoplasm with PAS pos eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusions

Answer 16

solid pseduopapillary tumors

Question 17

Second most common cystic tumor of the pancreas

Answer 17

serous cystadenoma

Question 18

tumors with a honeycombed appearance

Answer 18

serous cystadenoma

Question 19

Associated with Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome

Answer 19

serous cystadenoma

Question 20

small cysts which are lined by ciliated cuboidal epithelium

Answer 20

serous cystadenoma

Question 21

most common type of pancreatic cancer

Answer 21

pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Question 22

second most common pancreatic cancer

Answer 22

mucinous