Mutations in this gene are found in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2A / 2B and FMTC.
What is RET?
100
This is the most common intra-abdominal malignancy in the newborn and in children less than 1 year of age.
What is Neuroblastoma?
100
This is the most preferred access in end-stage renal disease patients or those patients expected to become hemodialysis dependent.
What is radio-cephalic AV fistula?
100
This hernia is found more often in women and often presents with strangulation.
What is a Femoral Hernia?
100
These types of gallstone are most prevalent in the US.
What are Cholesterol Gallstones?
200
This is used to expose structures in the retroperitoneum behind the duodenum and pancreas.
What is a Kocher Maneuver?
200
A cystic mass in the mid portion of the right neck, just anterior to the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
What is a Second Branchial Cleft Cyst?
200
This is the most common vascular disorder in the competitive athlete
What is Paget-Schroetter Syndrome / Effort Thrombosis of the Subclavian vein?
200
One of the most common symptoms in this type of hernia is pain extending down the medial aspect of the thigh to the knee. The pain pattern is known as the Howship–Romberg sign.
What is an Obturator Hernia?
200
This is the most common factor associated with gall bladder cancer, found in 70 - 90% of patients with gallbladder cancer.
What is Cholelithiasis?
300
A patient suffering from this sequela of acute pancreatitis may present with painless hematemesis as a result of sinistral hypertension.
What is Splenic Vein Thrombosis?
300
This diagnosis presents as a one year old phenotypic female who undergoes bilateral hernia repair and at surgery a testis is found in the right inguinal hernia sac.
What is Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome?
300
This is the procedure of choice for a patient with acute limb ischemia from cardiac emboli.
What is open thromboembolectomy?
300
This is the component of the spermatic cord that tracks medially from behind bladder before entering internal ring.
What is the Vas Deferens?
300
Surveillance of populations at risk for hepatocellular carcinoma using hepatic ultrasound and this blood marker combined, have a sensitivity up to 85% and a specificity that can approach 90%.
What is Alpha-Fetoprotein?
400
These are the anastomoses created in the classic pancreaticoduodenectomy / Whipple procedure.
What are the pancreaticojejunal, choledocho- / hepatico- jejunal, and gastrojejunal anastomoses?
400
This is the most common type of tracheo-esophageal fistula.
What is Type C TEF (proximal esophageal atresia with a distal fistula)?
400
This intracardiac shunt is often present in patients who suffer TIA / CVA after sclerotherapy of lower extremity varicosities.
What is a Patent Foramen Ovale?
400
These are the two most common variants of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair.
What are Totally Extra-Peritoneal and Trans-Abdominal Pre-Peritoneal repairs?
400
These are the 5 components of Reynold's Pentad in the diagnosis of acute cholangitis
What are upper abdominal pain, fever, hypotension, jaundice and altered mental status?
500
This is the first intervention in the "step up" approach to management of necrotizing pancreatitis.
What is Percutaneous Drainage?
500
20-30% of Neuroblastomas have this genetic amplification, and this strongly correlates with advanced-stage and poor outcome.
What is Myc-N amplification?
500
These are the two components of the DRIL procedure for eliminating the steal phenomenon.
What are arterial bypass and ligation of the native artery distal to the arteriovenous anastomosis
500
These form a common border between the triangle of doom and the triangle of pain.