Signs and Eponyms
This posterior diaphragmatic hernia is often remembered by its anatomic location
What is Bochdalek?
This technique can be considered as adjunctive treatment in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis from appendiceal or colorectal cancers
What is Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)?
When performing an oncologic resection for colon cancer, the surgeon must take care to obtain at least this many lymph nodes
What is 12?
Unsteady hands in a world renowned vascular surgeon
What is shaky DeBakey?
Perihepatic adhesions from gonorrhea rap under the pseudonym 50 cent
What is Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Jackson III?
Pain radiates down the medial thigh with internal rotation of the hip, relieved by thigh flexion
What is Howship-Romberg sign?
This humanized monoclonal antibody directed against HER2/neu and is currently the first line choice for HER2/neu–positive breast cancer, in addition to chemotherapy.
What is trastuzumab?
Most chemotherapy agents function to destroy cancer cells or arrest cancer cell growth during DNA replication in this phase of the cell cycle
What is S phase of mitosis?
Santa Clause stops hepatic bleeding by clamping the hepatoduodenal ligament
What is Kris Kringle Pringle?
What is Keta-Mean Girls?
This sign is positive, indicating a rectus sheath hematoma, when a palpable abdominal mass does not cross the midline or change with contraction of the rectus muscle
This monoclonal antibody is directed against the PD1-PDL1 pathway and has been shown to aid in the treatment of melanoma, renal cancer, bladder cancer and non-small cell lung cancer
What is pembrolizumab (Keytruda)?
Peutz-Jeghers synsrome is an autosomal dominant disorder affecting this tumor suppressor gene, resulting in an elevated risk of certain malignancies such as of the GI tract
What is serine-threonine-kinase 11?
1/2 points for STK11
Candy-like euphemism for the condition caused by cancer cells producing abundant mucin or gelatinous ascites is the workhorse of hemostatic ringed forceps, commonly used in a variety of procedures
What is jelly belly Kelly?
A fracture that involves the epiphyseal plate (growth plate) of a bone calculates a patient's basal metabolic rate
What is Salter-Harris Benedict equation?
This eponymous syndrome describes a gastric outlet obstruction caused by large gallstones that reach the duodenal bulb and get lodged there through a biliodigestive fistula
What is Bouveret's syndrome?
Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody used in colorectal cancer, among others, that targets this signal protein
What is vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)?
This immunotherapeutic agent is specifically designed for treatment of RET(+) medullary thyroid cancers in patients with MEN2a/2b
What is selpercatinib?
Also called a tanner, the denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄40 of one pound or half of one shilling refers to a contiguous extension of adipose angling superolaterally from the primary breast into the axilla
What is sixpence tail of Spence?
The first female chancellor of Germany is a rare type of skin cancer that usually appears as a flesh-colored or bluish-red nodule, often on your face, head or neck
Formed by the anastomosis of the right and left gastroepiploic arteries, this structure supplies both the stomach and part of the transverse colon
What is the arc of Barkow?
Known by the name R-CHOP, this common chemotherapy regimen is a mainstay in the treatment of cancers such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma
What is Rituxumab-cyclophosphamide-hydroxydaunorubicin-Oncovin-prednisolone?
Alterations in this gene can result in imatinib resistance for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST)
What is PDGFRA?
(Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor Alpha)
This traumatic injury in which the mesentery avulses off a bowel loop mirrors Gerota's fascia on the posterior aspect of the kidneys
What is bucket handle Zuckerkandl?
A person who matures after the typical timeline palpates rectouterine or rectovesicular metastases on digital rectal exam
What is Late Blumer's self?