Top 3 Flashcards
Dense liver
Iron deposition
Amiodarone
Glycogen storage disease
Also consider Gold, Thorotrast
Nodular liver contour
Cirrhosis
Treated mets
Budd-Chiari
Also consider: Schistosomiasis, confluent hepatic fibrosis
Esophogeal diverticulum
Proximal pulsion - Zenker, Kilian Jamieson
Distal pulsion - epiphrenice
Mid traction
Also consider intramural pseudodiverticulosis
Solitary hypodense, hypovascular liver mass
Cyst, solitary met, abscess
Also consider: cholangiocarc, biliary cystadenoma, trauma
Multiple hypodene liver lesions
Cyst, mets, abscesses
Also consider cholangiocarc
RUQ cystic mass child
Choledochal, pseudocyst, duplication cyst or diverticulum
Also consider: ovarian cystic lesion, mesenteric cyst
Esophageal submucosal masses / thickened folds
Varices, reflux, caricinoma
Esophageal dilatation
Achalasia, scleroderma, gastric or oesophageal Ca.
Also consider: esophagitis with stricture, post surgical vagotomy
Esophageal pseudodiverticuli
Reflux oesophagitis, candida oesophagitis, superficial spreading carcinoma
Also consider: drug-induced oesophagitis
Esophageal ulcers
Reflux oesophagitis, viral oesophagitis (CMV, HIV, HSV), Drug induced oesophagitis
Also consider: caustic, cancer
Solid pancreatic mass
Adeno, islet cell, SPEN
Also consider: lymphoma, mets
Linitis plastica
Gastric Ca, Mets, lymphoma
Also consider: Crohn’s
Gastric ulcer
PUD, ca, lymphoma
Also consider: mets, Zollinger-Ellison
Thickened gastric folds
Hypertrophic gastritis, Ca, lymphoma
Also consider: menetriers, mets
Caecal mass
Appendicitis/abscess, Caecal/appendiceal Ca, appendiceal mucocele
Also consider, lymphoma, adnexal mass
Mesenteric mass
Mets, carcinoid, desmoid (Fibrosing mesenteritis)
Also consider: reactive lymphadenopathy (TB, MAC, Whipples), mesothelioma
Terminal Ileum thickening
IBD, infection (TB, bacterial), lymphoma
Also consider ischaemia, mets
Colon wall thickening
Infection, IBD, Ca.
Also consider Ischaemia