Top 3 Differentials - Gi

Front 1

Hyperdense Liver

Back 1

Iron Deposition
Amiodarone therapy
Glycogen storage disease
Gold therapy
Thoratrast

Front 2

Nodular Liver Contour

Back 2

Cirrhosis
Treated mets
Budd-Chiari Syndrome
Schistosoma japonicum
Confluent hepatic fibrosis

Front 3

Esophageal diverticulum

Back 3

Proximal esophageal pulsion diverticulum (Zenker or Killian-Jameson)
Distal esophageal pulsion diverticulum
Midesophageal traction diverticulum
Intramural pseudodiverticulosis

Front 4

Solitary hypodense, hypovascular liver mass

Back 4

Hepatic cyst
Solitary met
Hepatic abcess
Peripheral cholangiocarcinoma
Biliary cystadenoma
Hepatic laceration

Front 5

Multiple hypoattenuating hepatic lesions

Back 5

Hepatic cysts
Mets
Multiple hepatic abcesses
Cholangiocarcinoma

Front 6

RUQ cystic mass in a kid

Back 6

Choledochal anomaly
Pancreatic pseudocyst
GI duplication cyst/diverticulum
Ovarian cystic lesion
Mesenteric cyst

Front 7

Esophageal submucosal masses/thickened folds

Back 7

Varices
Reflux esophagitis
Varicoid esophageal carcinoma
Lymphoma

Front 8

Esophageal dilatation

Back 8

Achalasia
Scleroderma
Esophageal/gastric carcinoma
Esophagitis with stricture
Postsurgical changes (vagotomy)

Front 9

Esophageal pseudodiverticula

Back 9

Reflux esophagitis
Candida esophagitis
Superficial spreading carcinoma
Drug-induced esophagitis

Front 10

Esophageal ulcers

Back 10

Reflux esophagitis
Viral esophagitis (CMV, HIV, HSV)
Drug-induced esophagitis
Caustic esophagitis
Esophageal carcinoma

Front 11

Solid pancreatic mass

Back 11

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Islet cell tumor
Solid and Papillary Epithelial Neoplasm (SPEN)
Lymphoma
Mets

Front 12

Linitis Plastica

Back 12

Gastric carcinoma
Mets
Lymphoma
Crohn's

Front 13

Gastric ulcer

Back 13

Peptic ulcer disease
Gastric carcinoma
Lymphoma
Mets
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

Front 14

Gastric fold thickening

Back 14

Gastritis
Gastric carcinoma
Lymphoma
Mets
Menetrier Disease

Front 15

Cecal mass

Back 15

Apendicitis/appendiceal abcess
Cecal/appendiceal carcinoma
Mucocele of the appendix
Lymphoma
Adnexal mass

Front 16

Mesenteric mass

Back 16

Mets
Carcinoid tumor
Desmoid tumor/fibrosing mesenteritis
Reactive lymphadenopathy
Abdominal mesothelioma

Front 17

Terminal ileal wall thickening

Back 17

IBD
Infection
Lymphoma
Ischemia
Mets

Front 18

Colonic wall thickening

Back 18

Infectious colitis
IBD
Colon carcinoma
Ischemic colitis

Front 19

Small bowel wall thickening

Back 19

Crohn's
Lymphoma
Small bowel hemorrhage
Mets
Amyloidosis
Whipple disease

Front 20

Esophageal stricture

Back 20

Short Segment
Reflux esophagitis
Drug-induced stricture
Esophageal Carcinoma
Long Segment
Iatrogenic (NG tube)
Caustic ingestion
Radiation changes

Front 21

Small bowel dilatation

Back 21

SBO
Adynamic ileus
Celiac sprue
Scleroderma

Front 22

Cystic pancreatic mass

Back 22

Pancreatic pseudocyst
Mucinous cystadenoma
Serous cystadenoma
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN)
Solid and Papillary Epithelial Neoplasm (SPEN)

Front 23

Hypervascular liver mass

Back 23

Hemangioma
Focal Nodular Hyperplasia (FNH)
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
Hepatic adenoma
Hypervascular mets

Front 24

Multiple splenic nodules

Back 24

Mets
Lymphoma/leukemia
Microabcesses
Granulomatous disease
Multiple splenic infarcts

Front 25

Intrahepatic biliary ductal strictures

Back 25

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
Ascending cholangitis
AIDS cholangiopathy
Neoplasm
Post-transplant arterial ischemia