Normal Anatomy
Sonographic Appearance
Variants and Anomalies
Indications
(Name the exam ordered)
Measurements and Labs
100

THE FIBROUS CAPSULE OF THE LIVER

WHAT IS THE GLISSON'S CAPSULE?

100

PORTAL VEIN WALLS CAN BE DESCIBED AS THIS WHEN COMPARED TO HEPATIC VEIN WALLS

WHAT IS HYPERECHOIC?

100

AN ELONGATED EXTENSION OF THE RIGHT LIVER LOBE THAT EXTENDS CAUDALLY

WHAT IS A RIEDEL'S LOBE?

100

70 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH PULSATILE ABDOMINAL MASS, HX OF SMOKING

WHAT IS

EXAM: AORTA

INDICATION: 2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I71. 4: Abdominal aortic aneurysm, without rupture. 

100

CHOLECYSTITIS IS SUSPECTED IN THIS GALLBLADDER BECAUSE THE AP DIMENSION OF THE WALL MEASURES GREATER THAN THIS AMOUNT

WHAT IS 3 mm?

200

THE DUCT CREATED BY THE CONFLUENCE OF THE RIGHT AND LEFT HEPATIC DUCTS

WHAT IS THE COMMON HEPATIC DUCT?

200

ALTERNATING HYPERECHOIC AND HYPOECHOIC LAYERS SEEN ON EITHER SIDE OF THE GI TRACT LUMEN

WHAT IS THE "GUT SIGNATURE"?

200

MEDICAL TERM FOR UNDESCENDED TESTICLES

WHAT IS CRYPTORCHIDISM?

200

41 YO FEMALE PRESENTS WITH RUQ PAIN AND N/V, NO PRIOR SURGERIES

WHAT IS 

EXAM: GALLBLADDER U/S

INDICATION: 

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R10.11

Right upper quadrant pain

200

THIS LAB TEST GIVES INFORMATION ABOUT HOW PREGNANT A PATIENT IS

WHAT IS MATERNAL SERUM β-hCG ALSO KNOWN AS A QUANTITATIVE hCG?

300

THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE URINARY BLADDER TO THE UTERUS

WHAT IS ANTERIOR?

300

WITH A RED (TOWARDS)/BLUE (AWAY) COLOR MAP, THIS VESSEL APPEARS RED ALONG THE POSTERIOR ASPECT OF THE PANCREAS

WHAT IS THE SPLENIC VEIN?

300

THIS ANOMALY IS A RESULT OF INCOMPLETE MIGRATION FROM THE PELVIS ALONG WITH FUSION OF THE PARENCHYMA OF THE LOWER POLES

WHAT IS A HORSESHOE KIDNEY?

300

7 YO MALE PRESENTS WITH ACUTE RLQ PAIN, N/V, AND FEVER. EMR SHOWS LEUKOCYTOSIS.

WHAT IS 

EXAM: ABD LTD U/S

INDICATION: 

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R10.31

Right lower quadrant pain

300

WHEN THIS SUBSTANCE IS FOUND IN URINE, CONDITIONS LIKE BILIARY TRACT STONES OR TUMORS, HEPATITIS, AND CIRRHOSIS THAT LEAD TO CHOLESTASIS ARE SUSPECTED

WHAT IS BILIRUBIN?

400

MUSCLES POSTERIOR TO THYROID LOBES

WHAT ARE LONGUS COLLI MUSCLES?

400

INTUSSUSCEPTION APPEARS AS A "DONUT", "TARGET", OR "CINNAMON ROLL" IN THE TRANSVERSE PLANE BUT HAS THIS SONOGRAPHIC SIGN IN THE LONGITUDINAL PLANE

WHAT IS THE PSEUDOKIDNEY SIGN?

400

WHAT IS AN ANNULAR PANCREAS?

400

50 YEAR OLD MALE WITH HX OF ETOH ABUSE, KNOWN PORTAL HTN PRESENTS TO THE ED; STATES HE NEEDS A "TAP" DUE TO MISSED APPT LAST WEEK DUE TO TRANSPORTATION ISSUES:

KNOWN PORTAL HYPERTENSION

WHAT IS 

ULTRASOUND-GUIDED PARACENTESIS OR ABD LTD (ASCITES CHECK)

INDICATION: 

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R18.8 Other ascites

400

THE NORMAL RANGE FOR THE MIDCLAVICULAR LINEAR MEASUREMENT OF THE RIGHT LOBE OF THE LIVER

WHAT IS 13 - 17 cm?

500

LEVATOR ANI AND THE COCCYGEUS MUSCLES MAKE UP THIS STRUCTURE

WHAT IS THE PELVIC DIAPHRAGM?

500

THE ECHOGENIC, LINEAR STRUCTURE SEEN IN ADOLESCENT AND ADULT TESTES

WHAT IS THE MEDIASTINUM TESTIS?

500

UTERUS DIDELPHYS, SEPTATE UTERUS, AND BICORNUATE UTERUS CAN OCCUR WHEN THESE DUCTS DEVELOP INCORRECTLY

WHAT ARE MüLLERIAN DUCTS?

500

6 WEEK OLD FEMALE PRESENTS WITH HIP CLICK UPON CLINICAL EVALUATION. HX OF BREECH DELIVERY.

WHAT IS 

EXAM: INFANT HIP U/S

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code P03.0 

Newborn affected by breech delivery and extraction

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code R29.4  Clicking hip

500

THIS ORGAN PRODUCES GH, FSH, LH, AND TSH

WHAT IS THE ANTERIOR PITUITARY GLAND?