Vessels
This vascular system acts like the venous system but looks like the arterial system but does not communicate with either.
What is the portal system?
This is the range of normal liver measurements.
What is 15-17 cm?
This is the normal wall measurement in a normal gallbladder.
What is 3mm?
The pancreas is in its long axis in this plane.
What is the transverse?
These structures make up the trigone of the bladder.
What are the ureters and the urethra?
These arteries branch off the posterior lateral aspect of the abdominal aorta.
What are the renal arteries?
Sonographer's use this type of anatomy.
What is segmental?
The gallbladder must be imaged in a minimum of this many positions.
What is two positions? (supine, LLD, or a variation of body positions.)
These vascular landmark mark the tail of the pancreas.
What are the left renal vein and the splenic vein?
This is where we would find the renal arcuate arteries.
What is the cortico-medullary junction?
These vessels constitute the largest tributary to the inferior vena cava.
What are the hepatic veins?
This would be considered the normal echogenicity of a healthy liver.
What is homogeneous?
This measurement is indicative of gallbladder distension.
What is a AP or TRV measurement greater than 4cm?
These vascular landmark mark the body of the pancreas.
What are the SMA and the aorta?
This is another term for the renal pyramids.
What is the medulla?
The inferior vena cava terminates into this chamber of the heart.
What is the right artium?
This vessel provides the majority of the oxygenated blood to the liver.
What is the hepatic artery?
These are the different parts of the gallbladder.
What are the neck, body, and fundus?
These vascular landmark mark the head of the pancreas.
What are the IVC and the SMV?
This is the normal range of measurements for the length a kidney.
What is 9-12 cm?
This is the most superior branch of the abdominal aorta.
What is the celiac axis?
This vessels provides the most blood by volume to the liver.
What is the portal vein?
The CHD and CBD are best imaged in this plane.
What is the sagittal scan plane?
This structure may be noted in the posterior lateral aspect of the pancreatic head.
What is the CBD?
This describes the normal adult renal cortex in comparison to the liver.
What is isoechoic to slight hypoechoic?