ABDO/IR Flashcards
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Achalasia is
failure of organised oesophageal peristalsis causing impaired relaxation of the lower sphincter resulting in stasis and dilatation
due to loss/destruction of neurones in the auerbach/myenteric plexus
Achalasia imaging
short segment 3ish cm
xr
convex opacity overlapping mediastinum
air fludi level
small absent gastric bubble
displaced trachea on lateral
FLUORO
bird beak/rat tail
dilatation
tram track
incomplete relaxation
pooling/stasis
tertiary contractions
failure of clearance
Achalasia ddx
central/peripheral neuropathy
scleroderma
malignancy
stricture
chagas disease
non spec dysmotility
diffuse spasm
presbyoesophagus
Chagas disease is, and manifestations
tropical parasite infection (trypanosomiasis)
Cardiac
- myocarditis
- dilated cardiomyopathy
GI
- dysmotility and megaoesophagus
- megaduodenum and small bowel
- megacolon
GU
- megaureter
CNS
- meningoencephalitis
- chagoma
Presbyoesophagus is
manigestations of degenerating motor function in the aging oesophagus
Diffuse oesophageal spasm is
a motility disorder of the opesopahgus. may appear as a corkscrew esophagus
nutcracker oesopahgus is
a motility disorder, uisually normal swallow study
Schatzki ring is
a symptomatic narrow b ring occuring in the distal oesophagus and usually assoc with a hiatus hernia
Oesophageal web is
a constriction caused by a thin membrane projecting into the oesophagus, typically cervical
Oesophageal stricture aetiology
Upper and middle
- Barrett
- radiation
- caustic ingestion
- congenital
- intramural pseudodiverticulosis
- skin diseases, eg pemphigoid
Distal
- usually in the setting of GORD or
- scleroderma
- post NGT
- zollinger ellison
- post gastrectomy
Barrets oesophagus is and imaging
metaplasia of the oesophagus, a precursor for adenocarcinoma
imaging
- signs of reflux oesophagitis
- reflux
- long stricture
- large deep ulcer
- reticular mucosal pattern
- thickened folds
Oesophagitis causes
Infective
- HIV
- CMV
- Herpes
- Candida
Non infective
- drugs
- reflux
- corrosive
- idiopathic eosinophilic
- radiation
Oesophagitis imaging
mucosal irreg
erosions and ulcers
abnormal motility
thickened folds
limited distensibility
strictures
pseudodiverticulosis
small ulcers
- reflux
- herpes
- radiation
- drug induced
large ulcers
- cmv
- hiv
- carcinoma
Corrosive oesophagitis imaging
acute
- oedema
- ulceration
- sloughing
- dilatation
- atony
chronic
- single long or multiple stricutres
Idiopathic oesinophilic oesophagitis is
an inflammatory disease characterised by eosiniophilia of the oesophagfus layers
imaaing
- ringed oesophagus
- may coexist with longer stricutres
feline oesophagus is
transient transverse bands seen in the mid and lower oesophagus - almost always associated with reflux
Oesophageal carcinoma subtypes
Squamous (80%)
Adeno (20ish)
- mostly related to barretts, lower GOJ
Other
- mucoepidermoid
- adenoid cystic
- spindle cell
- leiomyosarcoma
- rhabdomyosarcoma
- fibrosarcoma
- lymphoma
Macroscopic
- polypoid
- ulcerating
- infiltrating
- superficial spreading
Oesophageal carcinoma imaging
XR
- wide azygooesophageal recess
- thick posterior stripe/right paratracheal striple
- tracheal deviation
- retrocardiac/posterior mediastinal mass
- air fludi level
- mass in gastric bubble (Kirklin)
Fluoro
- irregular stricture
- dilatation and hold up
- shouldering
CT
- eccentric wall thickneing >5mm
- perioesohpageal stransing/soft tissue
- dilated
- tracheobronchial invasion
- aortic invasion
Oesophageal leiomyoma is
a benign smooth muscle neoplasm of the oesophagus
imaging
- discrete ovoid mass, well outlined
- obtuse angles
- intramural, smooth
- calcifications are pathognomonic
- moderate enhancement
- no invasion
Oesophageal fibrovascular polyps are
benign intraluminal submucosal pedunculated tumours, usually occuring in the upper third of the oesophagus at the level of the upper sphincter
Peptic ulcer disease imaging
pocket of barium filling crater
- post bulbar; zollinger ellison
oedematous collar of swollen mucosa
radiating folds of mucosa away from ulcer
Acute gastritis causes and imaging
aetiology
- infection; hpylori
- systemic illness
- nsaids
- autoimmune
- caustic
- immunosuppression
- eosinophilic
imaging
- gastric wall oedema
- halo sign; enhancing mucosa
Atrophic gastritis imaging
decreased/absent fundal folds
narrow tubular stomach
small absent areae gastricae
linitis plastica - usually nodular
GISTs are
the most common mesenchymal tumours of the GI tract
c KIT histopath
assoc
- carney triad
- NF1
- carney striakis