Esophageal hiatus

Question 1

where dies the stomach meet the esophagus?

Answer 1

at the esophageal gastric junction

attaches first to the cardiac

Question 2

What attaches the esophagus to the diaghphragm?

Answer 2

phreno esophageal ligament

Question 3

What surrounds the esophagi hiatus?

Answer 3

right and left crus of the diaphragm

Question 4

What are the types of hernias that can go through the esophageal hiatus?

Answer 4

esophageal hernias

Question 5

What are the types of esophageal hernias?

Answer 5

Type I (sliding)
Type II (pure paraesophageal)
Tipe III ( sliding & pure esophageal)
Type IV (Type III with intra abdominal organ above the diaphragm)

Question 6

What is a type I esophageal hernia?

Answer 6

sliding

the Gastroesophageal junction goes above the diaphragm (cardia)

Question 7

What is type II esophageal hernia?

Answer 7

pure paraesophageal

GE stays put but the fundus comes into the chest (cardia)

Question 8

What is type III esophageal hernia?

Answer 8

mixture
paraesophageal - fundus comes above diaphragm
GE junction goes above diaphragm
(cardia & fundus)

Question 9

What is type iV esophageal hernia?

Answer 9

Cardia, fundus, stomach, greater omentum, and traverse colon could be pulled through the esophageal hiatus
because they are attaches to the stomach and is intraperitoneal