GI Flashcards
liver –> Couinaud segmts –> sup segmts? inf?
- sup: 2, 4, 8, 7, 1
- inf: 3, 4, 5, 6
liver –> caudate lobe –> draining V?
IVC
liver MRI –> steatosis vs hemochromatosis –> inphase/out phase signal?
- out of phase –> low signal –> fat
- in phase –> low signal –> iron
liver –> amyloid –> CT appearance?
hypodense –> focal or diffuse
Wilson dz –> copper deposit –> locations? (3)
- basal ganglia
- cornea
- liver
Wilson dz –> liver –> CT appearance?
mult hyperdense nodules
iron overload –> accum in what cell type? —> hemochromatosis vs hemosiderosis
- hemochromatosis –> hepatocytes
- hemosiderosis –> reticuloendothelial system –> hepatic Kupffer cells
hemochromatosis vs hemosiderosis –> affected organs?
hemochromatosis:
- liver
- pancreas
- myocardium
- skin/jt
hemosiderosis:
- liver
- spleen
- BM
hemochromatosis vs hemosiderosis –> MOA?
- hemochromatosis: genetic defect –> inc iron absorb
- hemosiderosis: blood transfusion or defective erythrocytosis
hemochromatosis vs hemosiderosis –> tx?
- hemochromatosis: phlebotomy
- hemosiderosis: iron chelator
what is 2ary hemochromatosis?
chronic hemosiderosis –> RES saturated –> hepatic damage
noncontrast CT –> hyperdense liver –> HU?
> 75
noncontrast CT –> hyperdense liver –> ddx? (4)
- iron overload
- med (amiodarone, gold, methotrexate)
- copper overload (Wilson dz)
- glycogen excess
mult tiny hypodense liver lesions –> (5)
- candidiasis –> microabscesses
- mets
- lymphoma
- biliary hamartoma
- Caroli dz
liver abscess –> MC etiology?
bowel process:
- diverticulitis
- appendicitis
- Crohn
- bowel surg
hepatic echinococcus –> hydatid cyst –> CT appearance?
well-defined hypodense mass –> floating membrane or assoc daughter cyst
cirrhosis –> early findings? (3)
- preportal space expand
- caudate lobe enlrg –> caudate to R lobe size ratio >0.65
- empty gallbladder fossa sign
what is Gamma-Gandy bodies?
cirrhosis –> 2nary finding –> splenic microhemorrhage
liver cirrhosis –> regenerative nodule –> arterial phase –> enhance or not?
not enhance
liver cirrhosis –> what is siderotic nodule?
iron-rich regenerative or dysplastic nodule
cirrhosis –> hypervasc liver mass –> ddx? (1)
HCC until proven otherwise
HCC –> classic enhancemt pattern?
- arterial phase –> enhance
- portal venous phase –> washout
cirrhosis –> what is “nodule in a nodule”?
enhancing nodule w/in dysplastic nodule –> early HCC
fibrolamellar HCC –> epidemiology?
young –> no cirrhosis