Arteries
Name the three branches of the Aortic Arch.
Innominate Artery (Brachiocephalic), Lt CCA, Lt Subclavian Artery
What is the name of the first vein we evaluate in a LEV exam?
Common Femoral Vein (CFV)
What is another name for the deep femoral artery?
Profunda Femoris
What is the name of the peritoneum that covers the abdominal organs?
Visceral Peritoneum
What is the name of the midline muscle layer that is between the rectus abdominis muscles?
Linea Alba
Where would we see Tardus Parvus?
Distal to a stenosis
What is an anechoic fluid-filled collection seen posterior to the knee in the popliteal fossa called?
Baker's Cyst
What intracranial vessel has a high pitched, more pulsatile, high resistance waveform with a dicrotic notch clearly seen? (hint: you can differentiate between it and another vessel by performing a temporal tap)
ECA
What is the name of the double-fold membrane that attaches to the abdominal wall and holds it into place?
Mesentery
An incomplete regression of the urachus during developement?
Urachal Cyst
What are some risk factors that would indicate an order for an LEA exam? (name at least 3)
Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, diabetes
If a patient presents with acute persistent limb swelling, local tenderness, limb warmth, and persistent pain, what should the sonographer be thinking to evaluate for?
Acute DVT
Name at least 3 muscles of the anterior and lateral abdominal walls.
External Oblique, Internal Oblique, Transversus, Rectus abdominis, and pyramidalis
What do you call a protrusion of a peritoneal-lined sac through a defect in a weakened abdominal wall?
A cavity formed by necrosis within a solid tissue containing an accumulation of pus is called a?
Abscess
What would be the primary parameters for a patient with < 50 degree stenosis? (Hint: PSV value, EDV value)
PSV <125, EDV <40
What venous pump helps facilitate venous return to the heart by a muscle contraction, reduces the effect of hydrostatic pressure, and reduces venous pooling?
Calf Veno-Motor Pump (Calf muscle pump)
Who's equation defines the relationship between pressure, resistance, and volume flow?
Poiseullie's Equation
What pathology develops from neoplastic cellular implantation across the peritoneal cavity?
Peritoneal Metastases
What is caused by surgical injury to tissue or by blunt trauma to the abdomen? (Hint: lab values may also show a decrease in hematocrit)
Hematoma
What pathology may: change flow direction, change velocity, cause turbulence, change pressure gradient, convert flow pattern, and narrow the vessel lumen?
Stenosis
What pathology is represented by trauma to the vessel, alterations (stasis) in normal blood flow, and hypercoagulability?
Virchow's Triad
Name at least 2 origins of abdominal cysts. (hint: what could cause one to form? How could someone get one?)
Embryology, traumatic or acquired, neoplastic, infective or degenerative
The ___ ________ _____ is divided into an anterior compartment (the gastrohepatic recess) and a posterior compartment (the lesser sac) by the lesser omentum and the stomach?
Left Subhepatic Space
The ____ ____ of the liver is delineated by the right superior and inferior coronary ligaments.
Bare Area