Esophagus
Fun Facts
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100

Esophageal carcinoma has high incidence in what region?

Northern China and Caspian Regions

100

Peptic Ulcers are more common in what blood type?

Type O

100

Right sided heart failure causes?

Cardiac Cirrhosis

100

Describe the significance of McBurney's

Common Site of Appendicitis

100

Describe the significance of Murphy's

Cholecystitis

200

What does Mallory-Weiss Syndrome cause?

Laceration of the Esophagus due to severe retching

200

What is the most common intestinal anomaly?

Meckel's Diverticulum

200

Invagination of a loop of the intestine into another is?

Intussusception

200

Describe the significance of hyperactive bowel sounds:

Intestinal Obstruction

200

Describe the significance of tenderness in the costovertebral angle:

Pyelonephritis

300

Esophageal Varices can form in?

Portal Hypertension

300

What zonal necrosis shows the same symptoms as Yellow Fever?

Mid-Zonal Necrosis

300

Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome can be caused by?

Alpha Cell adenoma of the pancreas

300

Describe the significance of tenderness in the right iliac fossa: (3)

Appendicitis
Salpingitis
Crohn's

300

Describe the significance of tenderness in the left iliac fossa: (3)

Diverticulitis
Ulcerative Colitis
Salpingitis

400

Achalasia of the esophagus is due to?

A reduced number of ganglia cells in the myenteric plexus

400

Nutmeg liver appearance in chronic hepatic venous congestion produces?

Centrilobar Necrosis

400

Hyperinsulinism and Hypoglycemic coma could be caused by?

Beta Cell Adenoma of the pancreas

400

Describe the significance of tender hepatomegaly: (2)

Hepatitis
Congestive Heart Failure

400

Describe the significance of non-tender hepatomegaly:

Cirrhosis
Liver Malignancy (Primary or Secondary)

500

Barrett Esophagus is due to?

Intestinal metaplasia of distal oesophageal mucosa

500

What necrosis develops in the central zone around the central vein?

Central-Zonal Necrosis

500

What leads to the formation of leather bottle stomach?

Leather Bottle Stomach

500

Describe the significance of dilated veins radiating from the umbilicus:

Caput Medusae
(Portal Hypertension in Cirrhosis)

500

Describe the significance of tenderness in the left hypochondrium:

Splenic Infarction