WHOLE ABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND

Question 1

Ultrasonography ALSO KNOWN AS

Answer 1

DIAGNOSTIC SONOGRAPHY

Question 2

Ultrasound professional responsible for PERFORMING and RECORDING an ultrasound studies for physician interpretation.

Answer 2

SONOGRAPHER

Question 3

Physician responsible for PROVIDING the final , legal interpretive REPORT of ultrasound findings.

Answer 3

SONOLOGIST

Question 4

Organ that sits across the back of the abdomen, behind the stomach

Answer 4

PANCREAS

Question 5

Most difficult organ to image because of the overlying gases in the duodenal loop

Answer 5

PANCREAS

Question 6

Pancreas is divided in how many parts?

Answer 6

5

   a. Head
   b. Uncinate process
   c. Neck
   d. Body
   e. Tail

Question 7

the pancreas appears ______ echodense or hyperechoic relative to the normal appearance of the liver.

Answer 7

MORE

Question 8

INDICATIONS FOR PANCREATIC SONOGRAPHY

Answer 8

• To measure size of the head, body and tail
• To detect pancreatic masses
• To detect inflammatory processes

Question 9

What is the used of Japanese technique?

Answer 9

For patients with obstinate gases

Question 10

Pancreas is generally enlarged.

Hazy, hypoechoic organ structure

Answer 10

ACUTE PANCREATITIS

Question 11

Indications of CHRONIC PANCREATITIS

Answer 11

• FOCAL NECROSIS
• SEGMENTAL OR DIFFUSE FIBROSIS
• CALCIFICATION OR STONES
• IRREGULAR HYPERECHOIC STRUCTURE
• IRREGULAR BORDERS

Question 12

Occurs in older patients, especially elderly diabetics

Answer 12

PANCREATIC LIPOMATOSIS

Question 13

PANCREATIC MASSES

Answer 13

• CYSTIC TUMORS
• CYSTADENOCARCINOMA
• ADENOCARCINOMA

Question 14

UNILOCULAR CYST (CYSTS WITHOUT SEPTATION OR A SOLID COMPONENT)

Answer 14

PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST

Question 15

MICROCYSTIC LESIONS (COLLECTION OF MICROCYSTS.

Answer 15

CYSTADENOMA

Question 16

MOST COMMON SITE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER IS THE

Answer 16

PANCREATIC HEAD

Question 17

The largest artery in the abdominal cavity.

Answer 17

ABDOMINAL AORTA

Question 18

FOCAL DILATATION IN THE ARTERY, WITH AT LEAST A 50% INCREASE OF ITS NORMAL

Answer 18

ANDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM

Question 19

ABDOMINAL AORTA WITH THE PRESENCE OF WALL

Answer 19

ATHEROMATOUS ABDOMINAL AORTA

Question 20

Largest solid organ of the body which is located at the right upper abdominal quadrant and often extends beyond the midline of the body to the left side.

Answer 20

LIVER

Question 21

An area between your liver and your right kidney

Answer 21

MORISON’S POUCH

Question 22

It’s also called the hepatorenal recess or right subhepatic space

Answer 22

MORISONS POUCH

Question 23

Separates the liver into the right lobe and left lobe.

Answer 23

FALCIFORM LIGAMENT

Question 24

separates caudate lobe from left lobe.

Answer 24

LIGAMENTUM VENOSUM

Question 25

divides the left part of the liver into medial and lateral sections.

Answer 25

LIGAMENTUM TERES

Question 26

MOST COMMON BENIGN TUMOR OF THE LIVER.

Answer 26

HEMANGIOMA

Question 27

MOST COMMON MALIGNANT TUMOR OF THE LIVER.

Answer 27

HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA