Kidney
This has no association with age, gender, or body habitus. This is a normal variant developed during embryo stage.
What is Ectopic Kidney?
More common in women, the liver becomes enlarged beyond normal size.
What is Hepatomegaly?
The spleen is in the body but not in the LUQ.
What is a Wandering Spleen?
All or parts of the gallbladder wall is calcified.
What is a Porcelain Gallbladder?
All or parts of the pancreas is inflamed.
What is Acute Pancreatitis?
This is a focal bulge on the lateral border of the kidney, creating a traingular shaped kidney.
What is a Dromedary Hump?
Common variant, tongue-like extension of the right lobe of the liver.
What is Riedel's Lobe?
Enlargement of the spleen, spleen measures more than 13 cm.
What is Splenomegaly?
Fundus kink, or folds back on the body of the Gallbladder.
What is a Phrygian cap?
Progressive interlobar fibrosis, destruction, and atrophy pancreas.
What is Chronic Pancreatitis?
Excessive calcium in the kidneys that's more common in the upper pole of the kidney.
What is Milk of Calcium Cyst?
Second most common benign liver mass, more common in women, particularly in childbearing years.
What is FNH?
Occlusion of segment of splenic arterial supply.
Key word: Wedge shaped
What is Splenic Infarcts?
Small infundibulum at the neck.
What is Hartman's Pouch?
Endocrine origin, islet cell tumor.
What is Insulinoma?
This pathology has a well-defined upper pole and not so defined lower pole. The kidney is fused together at the lower pole.
What is Horseshoe Kidney?
Diffuse process that destroys the normal liver lobule architecture. Causes are chronic and severe damage to liver cells leads to inflammation and subsequent necrosis, alcoholism.
What is Cirrhosis of the liver?
Creates and stores abnormal proteins.
What is Amyloidosis?
Diffuse form of cholesterols: lipid laden macrophages that deposit within the GB wall.
What is a Strawberry GB?
Most lethal of all malignancies. More frequent in pancreatic head and less common in body and tail.
What is Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma?
Two kidneys in upper quadrant of the body that is fused together.
What is cross-fused kidney?
Rare metabolic disorder where the body is not able to properly store or break down glycogen, a form of sugar or glucose.
What is Glycogen Storage Disease?
Absence of spleen.
What is Splenic Aplasia?
Inflammation of the gallbladder.
What is cholecystitis?
Fluid-filled sac that develops in the abdomen and is a common complication of pancreatitis
What is Pseudocyst?