Most Common
Most common hernia areas
What is umbilical, femoral, and inguinal?
Lower abdominal pain, dysuria, fever, frequent UTIs, hematuria
What is urachal cyst?
Cystic mass with fluid-fluid level, sharp margins, surrounding and compressing adjacent organs
What is biloma abscess?
Structure dividing subphrenic space
What is falciform ligament?
2. Drainage of fluid from abdomen
1. What is thoracentesis?
2. What is paracentesis?
Most common characteristics of omental and mesenteric masses (primary, solid, benign, malignant, etc)
What is benign, cystic, and secondary?
Abdominal pain, weight loss, and ascites occurring in middle-aged men exposed to asbestos
What is mesothelioma?
Matted bowel, thick septations, internal debris
What is malignant ascites?
Space anterior to the kidney and posterior to the stomach
What is the lesser sac?
Double fold of peritoneum that spreads like an apron and covers most abdominal organs
What is greater omentum?
Most common primary sites of peritoneal metastases?
What is ovaries, colon, stomach?
Palpable, firm, somewhat mobile mass caused by a growth of fat cells in a thin, fibrous capsule
What is lipoma?
Nodular, sheet-like nodes around the peritoneal line causing bowel adhesion
What is peritoneal metastases?
Structure separating posterior subphrenic space from right superior subhepatic space
What is bare area?
Remnant of a channel between the bladder
and the umbilicus
What is urachus?
Most common location of desmoid tumors
What is rectus abdominis and rectus sheath?
Leukocytosis, fever, and localized tenderness
Abscesses
Collection of blood between bladder and uterus resulting from a c-section
What is a bladder-flap hematoma?
1. Hernia lateral to epigastric vessels
2. Hernia medial to epigastric vessels
1. What is indirect?
2. What is direct?
Discrete linear echogenicity in the deepest layer of the
abdominal wall
What is peritoneal line?
Most common pathway for bacteria to enter the liver
What is ascending cholangitis of the CBD?
Pathology caused by surgery
What is lymphoceles, hematomas, and urinomas?
Anechoic to hypoechoic, smooth-bordered, benign mass blurring the peritoneal line
What is desmoid tumor?
Aponeurosis of oblique and transversus abdominis muscles forming a band-like vertical groove
What is linea semilunaris or Spigelian fascia?
Communication of the lesser and greater sacs
What is the epiploic foramen/foramen of Winslow?