Thyroid
Parathyroid
Adrenal
Misc
Idioms
100
Risk of malignancy with an FNA biopsy of suspicious for follicular neoplasm.
What is 20-30%?
100
This is the blood supply for the parathyroid glands?
What is the inferior thyroid artery?
100
This is where the left adrenal vein drains into.
What is the left renal vein?
100
Ectopic locations include the thymus and carotid sheath.
What are the inferior parathyroid glands?
100
To decide to do something difficult or unpleasant that one has been putting off or hesitating over. Originiates from before the days of effective anaesthetics, soldiers were given bullets to bite on to help them endure pain while undergoing procedures
What is bite the bullet?
200
This is the tumor marker used for medullary thyroid cancer.
What is calcitonin?
200
This gland is usually found posterior to the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
What is the superior parathyroid gland?
200
This is the one sign needed in order to work up a patient with an adrenal mass for hyperaldosteronism.
What is hypertension?
200
A triad consisting of low blood sugar levels, symptoms of hypoglycemia and improvement of these symptoms with eating.
What is Whipple's triad?
200
To establish a relaxed relationship in socially awkward situations. Originates from steam-powered ships that were designed in the 1800s for sailing in polar regions of the world and navigating through freezing water
What is break the ice?
300
An 9 year old boy comes into your office with an anterior neck mass. It is non-tender and moves with protrusion of his tongue. This is the most likely diagnosis.
What is a thyroglossal duct cyst?
300
These are often the first two localizing studies performed for identification of a parathyroid adenoma.
What is a thyroid ultrasound and sestamibi?
300
This size is considered the cut off for when to resect a non-functional adrenal incidentaloma.
What is 4 cm?
300
These are the borders of the gastrinoma triangle
What is cystic bile duct, 2nd/3rd portion of duodenum, and head/neck of pancreas?
300
Emerged from the rich and powerful, the Bourbon kings of France, first from King Louis XIII, a very important person who went prematurely bald and signifies a very important person
Who is a bigwig?
400
A 37 year old woman comes into your office with hyperthyroidism and protruding eyes. She is diagnosed with Graves' disease. This medication can be given preoperatively to decrease the vascularity of the gland.
What is Lugol's solution?
400
This is the first animal where the parathyroid glands were discovered.
What is the Indian Rhinoceros?
400
This benign neoplasm is composed of mature adipose tissue and a variable amount of hematopoietic elements
What is a myelolipoma?
400
Vascular anomaly associated with a right non-recurrent laryngeal nerve.
What is a right retroesophageal subclavian artery?
400
Might originate from when portrait painters used to charge more for larger paintings and that a head and shoulders painting was the cheapest option
What is costs an arm and a leg?
500
Four ultrasound features of a thyroid nodule that confer risk of malignancy?
What are microcalcifications, hypoechoic echotexture, irregular margins, shape taller than wide on the transverse view?
500
This drug is often used in the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism and works by increasing the sensitivity of the calcium sensing receptor to extracellular calcium.
What is a Sensipar(Cinacalcet)?
500
A patient with cafe au lait spots throughout her abdomen is likely to have which inherited disorder and associated adrenal pathology?
What are neurofibromatosis and pheochromocytoma?
500
Procedure of choice for an insulinoma
What is enucleation?
500
There is a popular story that the origin of this phrase dates back to the 1500s, when a tax was levied against decks of cards. People would get around the tax by purchasing decks of 51 cards instead of 52 cards, therefore the victim of the insult lacked a portion of their brain
What is not playing with a full deck of cards