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What is intussesception?
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A transient or persistent invagination of one bowel loop into another
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What is intussuscipiens?
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The "receiving" or out loop
AKA the catcher |
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What is the intissusceptum?
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Prolapsing / invagination inner loop
AKA the pitcher |
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In adults what describes the temporal nature of intussuscepion?
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Transient
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What are the 2 IBD diseases?
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1. Crohn's
2. UC |
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Where in the GI tract is CD found, UC?
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CD = any portion
UC = colon only |
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Where is CD found in the colon?
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Right side
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What describes crohn's interms of continuity, UC?
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Crohn's = discontinuous
UC - continuous, beginning at the anorectal junction |
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What describes UC and CD wrt to mucosa involvement?
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CD = transmural
UC = Mucosa / submucosa only |
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In a radiograph, what does UC mucosa look like?
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Granular
ALSO sacculations dissapear |
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What type of ulcers are seen in crohn's disease in a radiograph?
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Aphthoid ulcers
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What ulcers are pathognomonic for CD?
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Linear ulcers on the mesenteric border
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What other radiographic characteristic is typical of CD?
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Cobblestoning
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What type of ulcer/clefts are seen in CD?
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Knive like
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In CD's what can result from the transmural inflammatory process?
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Stricture Formation
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Transmural inflammation can also lead to what in CD?
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Fissure and fistula formation
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What is the characteristic radiologic sign of ischemia?
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Thumbprinting
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WRT to cancer, CT is best at showing what?
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Mesenteric Metastases, NOT primary SI tumor
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What small bowel tumor forms a calcified, speculated mesenteric metastasis?
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Carcinoid Tumor (GI Neuroendocrine tumor)
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What is the most common cause of a jejunal intussusception in an adult?
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Idiopathic
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