What is not part of the sonographer's role?
What is to diagnose?
This vascular condition is defined as a localized dilation of the aorta greater than 3 cm or 1.5× normal diameter.
This acute liver condition may show a “starry night” appearance.
What is acute hepatitis?
This lab value is elevated with biliary obstruction.
What is bilirubin?

What is Giraffe Sign?
This infection causes gas within the renal parenchyma and is life-threatening.
What is emphysematous peylonephritis?
Most common cause of thyroid nodules.
This condition results from decreased blood supply to bowel.
What is ischemic bowel disease?
When a piece of thrombus breaks off and flows down-stream.
What is an embolism?
Most common benign liver tumor.
What is a hemangioma?
This causes bile duct air and comet-tail artifact.
What is pneumobilia?
This sign shows lymph nodes surrounding vessels.
What is the sandwich sign?
What is pyonephrosis?
This condition causes hyperthyroidism with exophthalmos.
What is Graves Disease?
Most common cause of scrotal enlargement.
What is hydrocele?
What is isoechoic?
This condition often results from liver cirrhosis.
What is portal hypertension?
Gallbladder wall thickening can be seen in this liver condition.
What is hepatitis?
This congenital anomaly involves failure of two buds to fuse and can appear as a uncinate mass.
What is pancreatic divisum?
What is Lily Pad Sign?
The most common location for obstructing urinary stones?
What is the UVJ?
Most common thyroid malignancy.
What is papillary carcinoma?
This condition presents with RLQ pain and non-compressible tubular structure?
What is appendicitis?
What flow direction is normal for the portal vein?
What is hepatopedal?
This Doppler finding—to-and-fro flow at the neck of a lesion—is classic for this vascular pathology.
What is a pseudoaneurysm?
This benign lesion contains Kupffer cells and a central scar.
What is focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH)?
Most common cause of acute pancreatitis from biliary system.
What are Gallstones?
This occurs when a mass deforms its organ of origin.
What is Beak Sign?
This renal tumor is hyperechoic and composed of fat, vessels, and muscle and is usually asymptomatic.
What is an angiolipoma?
This autoimmune disease leads to hypothyroidism.
What is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?
This disease causes outpouchings of the bowel wall.
What is diverticulitis?
What is Lab Values?
Most common primary retroperitoneal malignancy.
What is lymphoma?
When multiple collateral vessels open to bypass thrombus.
What is Cavernous Transformation?
This condition causes inflammation due to obstruction of bile flow.
What is cholangitis?
This sonographic appearance is specific to what pathology?
Hydronephrosis occurs due to this fundamental problem.
What is obstruction of urine outflow?
This hormone regulates calcium levels.
What is Parathyroid Hormone (PTH)?
This prostate condition causes nocturia and weak stream.
What is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?
These three indicators of renal function change when kidney filtration is impaired.
What is BUN, GFR, and Creatinine?
This is the most common intraluminal pathology of the IVC, often originating from lower extremity veins.
What is IVC thrombus?
This malignant pediatric tumor is associated with elevated AFP.
What is hepatoblastoma?
This structure dilates when there is downstream obstruction.
What is the common bile duct?
This causes vein enlargement, luminal stenosis or occlusion and can be anechoic, echogenic, or calcified depending on it's age.
What is Intraluminal Thrombus?
This condition causes increased echogenic pyramids with possible microcalcifications.
What is medullary nephrocalcinosis?
This benign thyroid tumor often has a peripheral halo.
What is a follicular adenoma?
This fungal infection shows “wheel within a wheel” lesions.
What is candidiasis?
This primary spleen malignancy causes anemia, elevated WBC, excessive bruising, recurrent infections, and pallor
What is Leukemia?
A systematic disease that causes stenosis and occlusions in any artery in the body.
What is Atherosclerosis?
This portal vein measurement exceeds normal limits and is one of the primary sonographic criteria for portal hypertension.
What is 13mm (1.3cm)?
This RUQ fluid collection results from bile leakage.
What is a Biloma?
This is characterized by obstruction of the hepatic venous vasculature.

What is Budd Chiari Syndrome?
This malignant tumor is often associated with pathology of the renal vein and IVC.
What is Renal Cell Carcinoma?
What is Follicular Carcinoma?
What cell is present with Hodgkin's Lymphoma?
What is Reed-Sternberg cells?
An elderly patient presents with painless jaundice, weight loss, and a palpable gallbladder.
What is pancreatic adenocarcinoma?
What waveform characteristic is this and what pathology does it prove?
What is to-and-fro and pseudoaneurysm?
The parasitic infection that causes abscess via portal venous spread from colon, is treated with what antiparastics?
What is metronidazole?
Most common complication of pancreatitis.
What is pseudocyst?
This vascular sign is specific to Focal Nodular Hyperplasia.
What is spoke-wheel pattern?
This immune-mediated disease causes hematuria, proteinuria, and decreased GFR.
What is acute glomerulonephritis?
What pathology is locally invasive, rapidly grows and has a fatal prognosis?
What is Anaplastic Carcinoma?
What is the Sonographer!