The right and left hepatic ducts join centrally to form this?
What is the common hepatic duct.
100
Macrophages that take care of waste.
What are kupfer cells.
100
Stores bile and concentrates it.
What is the gallbladder.
100
Two imaging agents for HIDA scans.
What are Mebrofenin (Choletec) or Disofenin (Hepatolite).
200
The cystic duct leads from the gallbladder and joins the common duct. At this point the duct continues distally as the ?
What is the common bile duct.
200
These convert bilirubin to bile.
What are hepatocytes.
200
The gallbladder is stimulated by the hormone...
What is cholecystokinin, also known as CCK, kinevac and sincalide.
200
Two isotopes that can be used in spleen imaging.
What are Tc99m Sulfur Colloid or Heat Damaged RBCs.
300
At its entrance into the duodenum, the common bile duct has a muscular sphincter called ?
What is the sphincter of oddi.
300
The main cause of "colloid shift".
What is Hepatic Portal Hypertension.
300
Removal of the gallbladder.
What is a cholecystectomy.
300
Isotope that is used for liver scanning for a hemangioma.
What is Tc99m Ultra-tagged RBCs
400
The process in which the Hepatic Artery delivers oxygenated blood from the heart, supplying about 25% of the liver's blood and the Hepatic Portal Vein carries blood to the liver that has traveled from the digestive tract.
What is the Dual Blood Supply of the liver.
400
Why would we use markers during Liver sulfur colloid scanning?
What is size and location.
400
Another name for gallstones.
What is cholelithiasis.
400
The dose for conversion for CCK
What is .02mcg per kg of the patient's body weight.
500
Stores energy in the form of glycogen and also removes glucose from the blood when blood glucose levels are high through a process called glycogenesis.
What is the liver.
500
The pathological conditions of the gallbladder.
What is chronic cholecystitis, acute cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, biliary leak, biliary atresia, sphincter of oddi dysfunction.
500
The dose calculation for Morphine.
What is .04 mg per kg of patient's body weight up to a maximum of 4 mg.