Liver
This is the upper limit of the CHD.
What is 4 mm?
This is the upper limit of the pancreatic duct.
What is 2 mm?
This is the upper limit of the CBD.
What is 6mm?
This is the hyperechoic, fat-containing area of the medial aspect of the kidney contained within the renal pelvis.
What is the renal sinus?
These are the two types of pulp in the spleen.
What are red and white?
This is the name for a maneuver used to confirm presence and movement of a hernia.
What is Valsalva?
This is the triad of structures that forms the porta hepatis.
What are CBD, hepatic artery, and portal vein?
This is the more inferior of the two round, anechoic structures seen in the head of the pancreas in a transverse plane.
What is the CBD?
This is the pathology that presents with comet-tail artifact.
What is adenomyomatosis?
This is the echogenicity of kidneys with end-stage renal disease.
What is echogenic?
This is what the size of the spleen does as a person ages.
What is decreases?
This is the largest cavity of the peritoneum.
What is the greater sac?
These are the two sections the right lobe is split into?
What are anterior and posterior?
(RAP, LML)
This is the location of the pancreatic tail in comparison to the head and body.
What is superior?
This is the name of the sonographic sign seen when the gallbladder is full of stones.
What is the WES sign?
This is the portion of the kidney which contains most of the renal function activity.
What is the renal cortex?
This is the most common location of an accessory spleen, splenunculus, or splenule.
What is splenic hilum?
This is the "P" in SADPUCKER, which lists the retroperitoneal organs.
What is pancreas?
This is the name for when the portal vein is flowing the correct direction.
What is hepatopedal?
This is the name of the procedure that removes the head of the pancreas.
What is Whipple procedure?
This is the name of fluid collecting around the gallbladder with some biliary pathology.
What is pericholecystic fluid?
This is the typical placement of the left kidney compared to the right.
What is superior and larger?
This is the hypoechoic, wedge-shaped lesion seen in the spleen.
What is splenic infarct?
This is the type of inguinal hernia which falls into the scrotal sac.
What is indirect hernia?
This is the name of the capsule surrounding the liver.
What is Glisson's capsule?
This is the way that acute pancreatitis damages the pancreatic tissue.
What is it leaks digestive enzymes that damages the tissue?
This is the name of the pathology that presents as gas in the gallbladder wall.
What is emphysematous cholecystitis?
This is the name of a stone obstructing the renal pelvis.
What is staghorn calculus?
This is the most common reason for ultrasound examination of the spleen?
What is splenomegaly?
This abdominal wall pathology presents as a midline lump superior to the bladder.
What is urachal cyst?