Tests Flashcards
The reproductive system develops concurrent with what?
Urinary system
The mullerian ducts are also known as what?
Paramesonephric ducts
What is hematometracolpos?
Accumulation of menstrual blood in the uterus and vagina caused by either an imperforate hymen or other obstruction
What are the paired embyronic tubes that run parallel to the mesonephric ducts?
Mullerian ducts
How does bicornuate uterus appear?
2 wings
What is the pacman appearance of uterus?
Arcuate
What is a set routine for performance of an examination called?
Protocol
Which transducer would be the best to image an obese 3rd trimester patient?
2.5 MHz curved linear
What are the characteristics of Carnegie stages of development used to stage an embryo?
Morphology
The preembryonic phase occurs during which portion of the gestation?
Weeks 1 to 3
What is the normal chromosome number for an ovum?
22 X OR 22 Y
Where does implantation of the embryo occur?
Endometrium
What structure images after the yolk sac?
Embryo
What is the quantitative pregnancy test?
Serum (qualitative is HCG)
Image: echogenic structure located within endometrium (thick line)
IUCD
What is a uterine anatomic cause of infertility?
Endometrial polyp
Which type of fertilization occurs inside the body?
In vivo fertilization
How do you measure the nuchal translucency?
Inner to inner
What do you call an implantation of the placenta low in the uterus resulting in total or partial covering of the cervix?
Placenta previa
What is the delivery of the cord before the fetus called?
Cord prolapse
What maternal factor results in delayed placental maturation of a 5 cm placenta?
rH disease or gestational diabetes
What is placenta accreta?
Decidual formation defect w/abnormal placental attachment to uterine wall
What is the sonographic characteristic of excessive Wharton’s jelly?
Variably echogenic, soft tissue mass w/3 vessels visible
What placental grade in most likely in first trimester (homogenous)?
Grade 0
What is circumvallate placenta?
Abnormally attached placenta with a peripheral raised ring
What maternal disease can result in early placental maturation?
Hypertension
What is the protrusion of meninges through a spinal defect?
Meningocele
What is cactus-like on ultrasound?
Agenesis of corpus callosum (ACC)
What anatomy is imaged on the axial plane at the cerebellar level?
Cisterna magna
What is the sonographic characteristic of a cephalocele?
Complex paracranial mass
What is characteristic of cystic hygroma?
Cystic mass with septa
On ultrasound, you see a wide high 3rd ventricle, TEAR-DROP shaped ventricle, widened ventricular atria, ABSENT CAVUM SEPTI PELLUCID and a sunburst appearance of the gyri and sulci imaged in the fetal brain……
Agenesis of the corpus callosum
What is the Dandy-Walker variant?
Partial agenesis of the vermis
What anatomy is a straight line in the middle of the cranium?
Thalamus
Which sonographic appearance looks like a squiggly tube?
Anencephaly
Which term describes a congenital anomaly where the urinary bladder extends through a ventral wall defect?
Bladder exstrophy
Which birth defect results in abdominal contents within the thorax?
Duodenal atresia
Sonography failed to find a right kidney, full bladder, and there were low levels of amniotic fluid……suspicious for….?
Renal agenesis
Which fetal anatomy is closest to the cervix in the Frank breech?
Buttocks
Which is a maternal cause for nonimmune fetal hydrops?
Supraventricular tachycardia (any arrhythmia)