This is the chosen repair for a unilateral inguinal hernia in a 4 month old infant
What is high ligation of the hernia sac
Embryologically, this portion of the pancreas develops from the ventral gland
What is the uncinate process?
This is how much percent of the adult human body is water
How much is 66% - 75%
These are the primary bile acids in bile
What are cholic and chenodeoxycholic acid?
This is the most common viral infection in a transplant patient
What is Cytomegalovirus (CMV)?
This forms the inguinal (Poupart's) ligament
What is the inferior border of the external oblique muscle
This is the name of the dorsal duct of the pancreas
What is the duct of Santorini
Lactated Ringers solution has this much Chloride in it.
What is 109 mEq?
This circulation allows 95% of bile to be reabsorbed
What is enterohepatic circulation?
2 days after a mastectomy, a patient develops high fever, a red skin rash all over the body and hypotension. Cultures of the wound grow out this organism.
What is staph aureus (Toxic shock syndrome)
This hernia presents with diarrhea, not obstruction
What is a Richter's hernia
This pancreatic islet cell produces glucagon
What are the alpha islet cells
This is the treatment of hypermagnesemia
What is Calcium (chloride or gluconate)?
This sign is the presence of a palpable gallbladder in the setting of a pancreatic head tumor
What is Courvoisier's sign?
Your senator receives a letter with a white powder inside, suspicious for anthrax. This is the antibiotic you would prescribe.
What is ciprofloxacin/doxycycline? (both acceptable)
Injury of this nerve during a hernia repair can cause pain/numbness over the scrotum and inner thigh
What is the genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve
This syndrome has migratory thrombophlebitis associated with pancreatic cancer
What is Trousseau syndrome?
This is the most common electrolyte disorder in a patient with hyperosmolality
What is hypernatremia?
This is the kind of gallstone expected in a patient with heriditary spherocytosis
What are bilirubin stones?
This is the classic facial feature (smile) in a patient with tetanus
What is risus sardonicus?
This is a combination of a direct AND indirect inguinal hernia
What is a pantaloon hernia?
This disease has the triad of fasting hypoglycemia, symptoms of hypoglycemia, and relief of hypoglycemia with glucose (Whipple's triad)
What is an insulinoma?
Prolonged nasogastric suctioning will result in this metabolic disorder
What is hypokalemic, hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis
This syndrome is characterized by extrinsic bile duct compression from a gallstone in the Hartmann's pouch of the gallbladder.
What is Mirizzi syndrome
Ecthyma gangrenosum is associated with this bacterial infection
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?