Fun Facts Flashcards
(31 cards)
What frequency of defecation is considered normal?
3 times a day to 3 times a week
Where is inverted champagne bottle appearance seen
Lymphodermosclerosis
What is the most common cause of abscess over the coccyx just above the gluten cleft
Pilonidal abscess
Type of ulcer over burn scars and chronic wounds
Margolin’s ulcer- Malignant SCC
Most common vein affected in venous ulcer
Great Saphenous vein
What is BCC also called, why?
Rodent ulcer. Difficult to hold, slips as it is not fixed.
6 types of necrosis with examples
Coagulative- MI
Liquefactive- brain abscess
Caseous- tuberculosis
Fat- trauma to breast
Gangrenous- dry gangrene, wet gangrene
Fibrinoid- vasculitis, malignant HTN
Define apoptosis
Programmed cell death
3 types of bowel anastomosis
End to end
End to side
Side to side
Which artery supplies the appendix
Appendicular artery. - branch of inferior division of ileocolic artery- branch of superior mesenteric artery
Lymph vessesls of appendix drain into
Ileocolic lymph nodes
Sympathetic nerve supply of appendix
Arises from superior mesenteric plexus. Affarent enters spinal cord at T10
Point at which maximum tenderness of appendicitis is felt, where is it
Mc Burneys point. Pont between medial 2/3rd and lateral 1/3rd in line joining umbilical and ASIS
Which layer of appendix contain lymphoid follicles
Submucosa
Why is there shifting pain in acute appendicitis
First pain develops in periumbilical region due to T10 affarent. Then irritation of peritoneum shifts pain to right Iliac fossa.
What is rebound pain? What does it suggest?
Rebound pain is pain on release of pressure. Due to inflammation of peritoneum.
Rovsing sign
Pain ir right Iliac fossa when pressure applied to left Iliac fossa due to shifting of bowel
What is another diagnosis of a bacterial infection by Yersinia that causes pain similar to appendicitis
Mesenteric adenitis
What is the most common direction of appendix
Retrocolic- 12o’ clock
Benign tumor that appears as a fluid filled sac often on the newborns neck due to lymphatic system blockage
Cystic hygroma
Congenital swelling in the back made up of meninges and containing CSF
Meningocele
Neurofibromatosis type 1 is also called
Von Recklinghausen’s disease
At what vertebral level is the cricoid cartilage
C6
Most common motility disorder of oesophagus in which food accumulates and regurgitates
Achalasia cardia
