URINARY SYSTEM
The most comon vascular complication following renal transplantation.
What is renal artery stenosis?
This hormone stimulates gallbladder contraction during digestion.
What is cholecystokinin?
The muscle that is siutated closest to the spine.
What is the psoas?
This focused trauma exam evalulates for free fluid in the abdomen and pericardium.
What is a FAST exam?
The most commmon benign breast lesion which typicallly appears oval and circumscribed on ultrasound.
What is a fibroadenoma?
This benign reanl tumor contains macroscopic fat.
What is angiomyolipoma?
A hernia with vascular comprimise.
What is strangulated?
The double fold of peritoneum that attaches the intestines to the posterior abdominal wall.
What is mesentery?
What is hypertrophic pyloric stenosis?
A breast mass that is highly suspicious for malignancy on ultrasound will have this feature.
What is a hypoechoic mass that is taller than wide?
The renal pathology commonly associated with a staghorn calculus.
What is xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis?
A chronic, autoimmune disease that causes inflammation of any part of the gastrointestinal tract.
What is Chron's disease?
Anterior displacement of the kidney and ureter suggests a mass is in this space.
What is the retroperitoneum?
The most common location for fluid to accumulate post trauma.
What is Morrison's pouch?
The sonographic scanning technique of the breast that better demonstrates the pattern of the ducts.
What is radial and antiradial?
Sonographically, compared to normal kidneys, those affected by chronic renal failure will have this appearance.
What is smaller in size and echogenic?
The term that indicates twisting of bowel.
What is volvulus?
Excessive secretion of aldosterone occurs in this syndrome.
What is Conn's?
This surgical technique has been used for years for the diagnosis of hemoperitoneum.
What is peritoneal lavage?
Inflammation of the breast related to pregnancy.
What is puerperal mastitis?
The most likely location of transitional carcinoma in the kidney.
What is the renal pelvis?
The most common organs with cancer that will metastasize to the peritoneum.
What are the colon, stomach, and ovaries?
A rare, painful hematoma of the abominal wall that presents as a palpable abdominal mass and can be caused by violent coughing/sneezing, strenous excercise and childbirth without increased hematocrit due to being localized.
What is a rectus sheath hematoma?
A life-threatening medical emergency where the inner layer of the aorta tears and will appear sonographically as a mobile, hyperechoic flap within the aortic lumen with turbulent or reversed flow on color Doppler.
What is aortic dissection?
The benign enlargement of glandular breast tissue in males that has the sonographic appearance of a hypoechoic, retroareolar mass.
What is gynecomastia?