2b Flashcards
What does abdominal TB look like
Aysemmetrical thinking of the medial wall of the caecum and thickening of the terminal ileum.
Low density mesenteric nodes
Causes of terminal ileum thickening?
Chrons disease
Abdominal TB
Lymphoma
Terminal ielitis - yersina
Complications of Chrons
Fissures, fistulae, perirectal abcess
Complications of Crohn’s
Erythema nodosum
A vascular necrosis secondary to steroid use
Gallstones
PSC
Cholangiocarcinoma
Sacroilities
Synovitis
Causes of pancreatic calcification
Chronic calcification pancreatitis - alcohol
Tropical calcification pancreatitis - idiopathic pancreatitis seen in the tropics
Hyperparathyroidism
Hereditary pancreatitis
Diabetes
You dont see it in pancreatitis secondary to gallstones
Causes of renal papillary necrosis
Diabetes
Pyelonephritis
Sickle cell anaemia
Renal TB
Renal vein thrombosis
What does ewings sarcoma family of tumours include?
Ewings sarcoma of the bone
Ewings sarcoma of the chest wall - Askin tumour
Primitive neuroectodermal tumour - PNET kidney or pancreas.
T1 bright adenxal lesions on MRI
Endometrioma - shading sign on T2, with T2 dark spot
Desmoid - will loose signal on T1FS
Haemorrhagic cyst - may show specks of T1 bright and dark due to different blood products
Pemeative bone lesions
Primary bone lymphoma
Infection - Osteomyelitis
Metastatsis
Primary bone neoplasms - Ewings sarcoma,a osteosarcoma, myeloma
Medulloblastoma associated syndromes
Gorlin syndrome - BCC, jaw cysts, palmar pits
Turcot syndrome - colorectal polyps, brain tumours
FAP is more associated with medulloblastoma
What brain tumour is more associated with HNPCC (Hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer)
glioblastoma
Risk factors for carotid artery dissection
Marfans
Ehrlas Danlos disease
Fibrmucscular dysplasia
alpha 1 antitrypsin
Hyperhomocsteinaemia
Treatment for stroke secondary to carotid artery dissection
LMWH or Antiplatles or heparin
Not thrombolysis
Causes of osteonecrosis of the femoral epiphysis
Perthes - idiopathic
Haemaglobinopathies - Sickle cell, thalaseemia
trauma
Metabolic - Renal disease, steroids
Post surgical
Storage disease - gauchers
Causes of PRES
Hypertension
Pre-eclampsia
Drugs - treatment for RCC IG
Severe hypercalcaemia
SLE / HUS
Severe sepsis
Renal disease
What do people with klinbock disease have ?
- lunate osteonecrosis
Up to 75% of people have negative ulna variance