Radiology: the stuff in red

Question 1

What does abdominal X-ray show?

Answer 1

lots of soft tissue and water. Air is black!

Question 2

What veins lead to the main portal vein?

Answer 2

splenic and superior mesenteric.

Question 3

Number and names of functional segments of the liver

Answer 3

8: caudate, 3 in the left lobe, 4 in the right lobe

Question 4

best imaging modality for the biliary tree?

Answer 4

MRCP is best non-invasive imaging modality to evaluate biliary tree
Magnetic resonance choliangopancreaticogram

Question 5

Divisions of the liver segments: anterior from posterior

Answer 5

right hepatic vein

Question 6

Divisions of the liver segments: right from left

Answer 6

middle hepatic vein

Question 7

Divisions of the liver segments: medial left from lateral left

Answer 7

falciform ligament

Question 8

Divisions of the liver segments: superior from inferior

Answer 8

portal vein

Question 9

Pancreas anatomy– important bits

Answer 9

SMA goes in between uncinate process and rest of head

Pancreatic tail is in the splenic hilum

Question 10

Recognize the superior mesenteric artery on scans

Answer 10

comes out below celiac trunk at about the level of the l and r renals…