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The esophagus is posterior to what?
Lt. Atrium
The axillary lymph nodes are?
Superficial
The right lower lobe of the lung is located at what ribs?
Ribs 6-8 and to Rib 10 posteriorly
Cardiac hypertrophy would occlude what organ?
Esophagus
Tip of a pacemaker would go where?
Right ventricle
Hemothorax from broken ribs would result from blood from where?
Intercostals bleed when a rib breaks
What four areas is the esophagus constricted?
The cricopharyngeal area, aortic arch, left bronchus, and diaphragm
The sympathetic nervous system does what to bronchioles?
Dilation
What part of the electrical circuit of the heart does a pacemaker replace?
SA node
Aneurism of the aortic arch will impinge what?
Phrenic nerve
Flail chest is marked by what?
Paradoxical breathing from a rib detached from the chest wall.
Why is cardiac tamponade dangerous?
Fluid buildup in pericardial sac slows heart down and reduces blood pressure.
Where would you place a needle for thoracocentiesis?
Superior boarder of rib.
How does the vagus nerve affect the lungs?
Constricts bronchioles
What is the major function of the "bucket handle" motion of the ribs?
To increase the transverse diameter of the chest cavity.
What part of the lung is found in the 6th intercostal space?
Inferior lung lobe
During pregancy what vessel in the abdominal cavity can be compressed?
IVC
Stabbing through the sternum would penetrate what?
The right ventricle of the heart
What is a chylothorax? How can this happen?
Where the thoracic duct leaks into the pleural space. From a left brachiocephalic vein injury.
What would result from the trachea deviating left?
Left brachiocephalic vein compression.
Stabbing to the right of the manubrium would damage what?
SVC
Embolus to the brain would originate from where?
Lt. Atrium or Lt. Ventricle. Cannot pass a capillary bed on its way there!
Parietal pleura is innervated by
Somatic afferent fibers
The SA and AV nodes get their blood supply from what coronary artery?
RCA
Where does pain in the heart come from?
Sympathetic trunks = visceral sensory afferents
What occurs at the transthoracic plane?
T4-T5
Bifurcation of trachea
Aortic arch
Azygous drains into SVC
Rib 2 articulates w/ sternum
S/Inf mediastinal division
Upper limit of pulmonary trunk
Lower 1/3 of esophagus drains in to what lymph nodes?
Posteromediastinal nodes
Lt. gastric nodes
Right primary bronchus drains into?
Inferior tracheobronchial nodes
Placement of a central line can damage what vessel?
Subclavian Artery
Tumor of the thymus gland would compress what?
Left brachiocephalic vein
Dilation of the middle esophagus would compress what?
Thoracic duct
Paralysis of the diaphragm is marked by what?
Paradoxical movement where the abdominal viscera are pushed to the paralyzed side.
Danger in a radical masectomy?
Injuring the long thoracic nerve or the thoracodorsal nerve.
Thoracoentesis takes place where?
Between the 9th and 10th rib (costodiaphragmatic space)
Layers that a needle penetrates with thoracocentesis?
Skin, superficial fascia, deep fascia, external intercostal, internal intercostal, innermost intercostal, endothoracic fascia, parietal pleura
Where would you do an intercostal nerve block?
At any level, numbing both the nerve in the costal groove in the superior space, and the collateral nerves inferiorly

(between internal and innermost intercostals)
What occurs when air enters the pleural cavity?
pneumothorax
What is the term for a collapsed lung?
Atelectasis
What is the accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity called?
Hydrothorax (pleural effusion)
What is the accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity called?
Hemothorax
Lateral breast lymphatic drainage?
Nipple, areola, lobules, subareolar plexus, pectoral, lateral, subscapular, central, apical, subclavian lymphatic trunks

75% drains this way
Medial breast lymphatic drainage?
parasternal nodes to bronchomediastinal nodes to rt. or left drainage.
Also can travel to contralateral breast.
Direction of external intercostal muscle fibers?
Antero-inferiorly. Aid in inspiration.
Innervation of intercostals, subcostales, and transversus thoracis?
T1-T11
Transversus thoracis attachments?
Sternum, xiphoid, costal cartilage 4-7

Ribs 2-6
What passes anterior to the hilus of each lung?
Phrenic nerves
What passes posterior to the hilus of each lung?
Vagus nerves
Where do you auscultate the middle lobe of the right lung?
5th intercostal space
What is posterior to the lower half of the manubrium?
Aortic arch
What are inferior to the sternal angle?
Left ventricle and pulmonary trunk
Where would a large object become lodged when aspirated?
Right main bronchus
Where would you find very small things that have been inhaled?
Inferior lobe of right lung

Posterior basal segment
Where would a left bronchogenic carcinoma manifest?
Could be anywhere, thorax, abdomen, pelvis because of drainage into thoracic duct.

Sentinel nodes are supraclavicular nodes!
What is inferior to the manubrium?
Right atrium
Where would an embolus to the right pulmonary artery originate?
Somewhere in the legs, femoral origin.
Where do the first two posterior intercostal arteries branch from?
The superior intercostal artery a branch of the costocervical trunk off of the subclavian
What does the internal thoracic branch into at the costal margin?
Musculophrenic and superior epigastric arteries
Where do the left and middle thoracic wall drain?
brachiocephalic veins
What level does the azygous vein drain into the SVC?
T4
When someone has a sensory and motor deficit, what must be damaged?
Some kind of SPINAL NERVE
Structures lateral to the sternum on the right side from superior to inferior?
Right brachiocephalic vein
SVC (2nd intercostal)
Right atrium (3-4 intercostal)
IVC
What is the most common heart blockage?
Left diagonal branch of the left anterior interventricular artery off the LCA
A growth in the upper lobe of the right lung would block what?
Venous and lymphatic drainage resulting in a swollen face, jaw, and arm
What parts of the heart does the circumflex branch of the LCA supply?
Left atrium and ventricle
Innervation of the heart comes from where?
T1-T4
Where would the needle for a pericardiocentiesis procedure be placed?
At the costal margin and xiphoid process possibly penetrating the rt. ventricle
Level of aortic hiatus?
T12

Aorta and thoracic duct, sometimes azygous and hemiazygous vein join
Structures that enter at T8 through the diaphragm?
IVC, right phrenic nerve, and right pericardiacophrenic artery
From where do the pericardiacophrenic arteries branch?
Internal thoracic artery near manubrium
What structure of the diaphragm makes the esophageal hiatus?
Right Crus
What levels are the hilum of the lung?
T5-T7
What are the pulmonary arteries anterior to? Posterior to?
Trachea and decending aorta.

SVC
If the vagus nerve is compressed going through the esophageal hiatus what will occur?
Loss of parasympathetic functions of foregut.
What heart structure makes up the base of the heart?
Left atrium
What is the procedure where an incision is made to an intercostal space to access lungs and other structures?
Thoracotomy
Where is a chest tube placed?
Lateral to the nipple, below axilla in the "safe triangle"
What disorder of the heart is marked by relief when sitting forward?
Pericarditis
What disease is marked by hypertrophy of the left atrium and ventricle, increased pulmonary venous pressure, pulmonary edema?
Mitral valve disease
What is a key sign of aortic valve disease?
Regurgitation and heart failure
What is anterior to the esophagus?
Left atrium
Pain from the lungs would be referred to where?
Body wall, by intercostal nerves.
Where does the right bronchial artery branch from?
The third intercostal.

The left are off of the aorta directly (x2)
Flow of lymph from lungs?
Bronchopulmonary, tracheobronchal, bronchomediastinal, right and left to ducts
Auscultation at the right second intercostal would allow you to listen to?
Aortic valve
An enlarged left atrium would put pressure where?
Indention of the esophagus
If the area lateral to the sternum on the left side was stabbed, blood was present what can you assume was punctured?
Right ventricle (4th intercostal space)
Auscultation of the 5th intercostal space at the apex of the heart would allow you to listen to?
Mitral valve
Angina, heavyness in chest, sweating, arm pain, nausea, sharp pains in jaw would be symptoms of what?
Coronary artery disease
Name three congenital heart defects
Atrial septal defect
Ventriculoseptal defect
Patent ductus arteriosus
What is the sinus that allows ligation of two large vessels during surgery on the heart?
Transverse pericardial sinus

Aortic arch and pulmonary trunk
What is the reflection of the visceral pericardium covering? Parietal?
Veins and arteries
Tumor in lung extending into mediastinum can compress what nerve?
Phrenic
What is the risk with a central line?
Getting air in lungs
Where is a central line/dialysis line placed?
Axillary to subclavian or internal jugular to SVC to right atrium
How would one gain access to the IVC with a central line?
Line dropped down SVC through right atrium into IVC
What is coarctation of the aorta?
When there is a constriction of the aorta distal to the left subclavian artery. Over time collaterals will be established.
Lesion to vagus or laryngeal nerves is manifested by?
Vocal cord paralysis
Hoarseness of voice
Enlarged lymph nodes
A dissecting anuerysm of the aorta is a sign of this disease
Marfan syndrome - defective fibrillin gene
What is the position of the base of the heart and diaphragm while laying down? Standing up?
Heart: T5-T8
Diaphragm: T9

Heart: T6-T9
Diaphragm: T9-T10
Atherosclerosis is the thickening of what arterial layer?
Tunica intima, foam cells develop.
Structures in superior mediastinum?
SVC, BCV, Arch of aorta, thoracic duct, trachea, esophagus, thymus, left recurrent laryngeal, vagus and phrenic nerves, cardiac plexus
Structures in posterior mediastinum?
Esophagus and plexus, thoracic aorta, azygous and hemiazygous, thoracic duct, vagus nerve, sympathetic trunks, splanchnic nerves, tracheobronchial lymph nodes
An increase in laminin and collagen in the basal lamina of capillaries is indicative of what?
Diabetes mellitus
What is anosmia?
Loss of sense of smell during head trauma. Olfactory nerve permanently severed.
What is the fibrous pericardium attached to?
Central tendon, sternopericardial ligament, tunica adventitica of vessels.

Innervated by phrenic nerve
Structures unique to right atrium?
Sinus venarum, crista terminalis, sulcus terminalis, coronary sinus opening, SVC and IVC openings
How much thicker is the left ventricle than the right?
2-3 times as thick
Where is the deep cardiac plexus?
Anterior surface of trachea.

The superficial is at the bifurcation of aortic arch
Lymphatic drainage of the heart?
Coronary arteries to either brachiocephalic nodes or tracheobronchial nodes
Where do the right and left brachiocephalic veins unite?
Costal cartilage 1
What does the left brachiocephalic vein cross?
Brachiocephalic artery and aorta, it is 2 times as long as the right
What is anterior to the trachea and posterior to the left brachiocephalic vein?
The brachiocephalic trunk, right recurrent laryngeal goes under it
What is posterior to the left sternoclavicular joint?
Left common carotid is bare here.
What is the most posterior of the great vessels and ascends lateral to trachea?
Left subclavian artery
The left recurrent laryngeal wraps _______ to the ligamentum arteriosum?
Lateral
The vagus nerves are between what two vessels?
Common carotids and internal jugulars
What is the superior esophagus innervated by?
recurrent laryingeals and middle cervical ganglion
What is the inferior esophagus innervated by?
Esophageal plexus
Esophageal branches come from?
inferior thyroid, 3rd intercostal, superior and inferior left bronchial a, right bronchial a, left gastric, short gastrics
Chronic coughing, thick basement membrane of tracheal epithelium, increased goblet cells and increased mucous are signs of what?
Smoking
Three reasons why cilia would be immotile?
Kartegeners, alcohol abuse, smoking
How does someone have an asthma attack?
Mast cells release histamine, smooth muscles of bronchioles are constricted and shut down.
What disease is marked by a defective chloride channel and really salty sweat?
Cystic fibrosis
If you have no surfactant what will happen?
You will have aveolar collapse and respiratory disress syndrome
What is goodpasture syndrome?
Antibodies made to type 4 collagen, BL in lungs and kidneys affected. Common in males 29 years of age.
What is occuring when someone has permanent dilation of air spaces, no aveolar walls, thick blood vessels?
Emphysema (COPD)
What is inflammation of the lung?
Pneumonia
What is occuring when lung tissue is filled with red blood cells?
Congestive heart failure. Macrophages are filled with hemosiderin (iron).
What can occur with a cervical rib?
arterial compression and embolism
T1 nerve compression
Subclavian vein compression
From where does the azygous vein arise?
L1-L2
What intercostals does the azygous vein drain?
2-4 from superior
5-11 posterior
From where does the hemiazygous vein arise and where does it cross?
T12
T9
What intercostals does the hemiazygous vein drain?
8 or 9 - 12 posterior
Where does the accessory azygous vein cross and what intercostals does it drain?
T8
4-8 left intercostals, also drains the left bronchial and superior intercostal (2-4)
From where does the thoracic duct arise?
Cisterna chyli at L2
Crosses at T5
Inbetween azygous and aorta
Dilated veins around neck are a sign of what?
Lung cancer
A bullet penetrates the 4th intercostal space above nipple, what happens?
Collapse of lung
Tension pneumothorax
Mediastinum shift
Rib fracture
Pleural effusion
Hemothorax
Where is the best place for a chest tube?
5th intercostal at midaxillary line
2nd intercostal at midclavicular line
Chest pain radiating into left arm and neck is a sign of what?
Myocardial infarction anteriorly
Decreased BP
Pulmonary vein pressure increases
What vessels do NOT enlarge in a coactation of the aorta?
Costocervical trunks
What is an aortic dissection?
Tear in the intima into the media of the vessel.
Marked by interscapular pain
Decreased kidney function
Acidosis
Ischema to legs
Chest infection
Opaque xray
Weight loss
Sputum with blood
Sweating
Fast breathing
Tuberculosis
Discomfort swallowing, weight loss, bleeding in GI tract are signs of?
Esophageal cancer
Portacath insertion is where?
Right anterior chest wall to internal jugular vein
Healthy man collapses when running one day, autopsy shows an increased amount of lymphocytes and neutrophils in the tissue.
Myocardial infarction caused by a 90% occluded artery in histology slide. No lumen is present in artery.
Greater splanchnic nerves?
T5-T9
Travel medially through crus of diaphragm to celiac ganglia
Lesser splanchnic nerves?
T10-T11

Travel medially through crus of diaphragm to aorticorenal ganglia
Least splanchnic nerve?
T12

Travel laterally through crus of diaphragm to the renal plexus
How does a surgeon find the appendix?
Traces the tinea coli to their intersection
What is the ileopubic tract?
A reflective band of transversus abdominis
What is end stage liver disease marked by?
Caput medusae
The innervation of the foregut?
T5-T9
What does the vagus nerve innervate in the abdominal cavity?
Foregut and midgut
What is the hindgut innervated by?
Pelvic splanchnics
What is a portal-caval shunt?
An anastamoses made between a vein in the portal area to a vein in the caval area. Splenic and renal connection is a common one
What contributes to the posterior rectus sheath?
1/2 of internal oblique aponeurosis + transversus abdominus aponeurosis
What does not contribute to the rectus sheath?
Transversalis fascia
What dermatome is at the xiphoid process?
T7
What dermatome is at the rectus abodominis?
T12
What nerves would a surgeon have to be cautious of when doing a posterolateral kidney resection?
Subcostal
Iliohypogastric
Ilioinguinal
How would the pancreas receive blood if the gastroduodenal artery is ligated?
Splenic artery
What organs are in the epigastric region?
Foregut
What are the components of the superficial inguinal ring?
Lateral crus
medial crus
intercrural fibers
lacunar ligament
Inguinal ligament
all formed by the external abdominal oblique
What vessels are medial to the 2nd part of the duodenum?
SMA
Abdominal aorta
What is lateral to the 2nd part of the duodenum?
Ascending colon
What is superior to the 2nd part of the duodenum?
Gallbladder
What is posterior to the 2nd part of the duodenum?
Right renal hilus
A gunshot to the upper abdomen hits pancreas and there is blood, what is the vessel most likely damaged?
SMA
What is anterior to the 3rd part of the duodenum?
SMA
What is the 3rd part of the duodenum posterior to?
Body of pancreas and transverse colon
What layer forms the innermost layer of spermatic cord?
Transversalis fascia
Where is the most common place for gallstones to lodge?
Ampulla of vater
If a person has tingling around the umbilicus what dermatome is responsible?
T10 intercostal
Where is McBurney's point?
1/3 of the way along the ASIS and umbilicus
What veins are distended with caput medusae?
Paraumbilical veins
Anastamose with superficial epigastrics that come off of the femoral just after the inguinal ligament
What is urinary extravation?
When urine flows into the potential space between scarpa's fascia and continuing layers
What is referred pain?
When somatics and viscerals synapse on the same 2nd order neuron (pain neuron) and the body cannot distinguish between the two
What artery is posterior to the first part of the duodenum?
Gastroduodenal
What happens if the neck of the pancreas gets a tumor?
The hepatic portal vein become occluded because it is directly posterior to it
How would cancer of the pancreas metastasize to the liver?
Through the portal system
If the SMA had an aneurysm what would one expect?
Compression of left renal vein posterior to it.
What are the boundaries of the omental foramen?
Roof - hepatoduodenal ligament
Floor - IVC
What vessel is posterior to the 3rd part of the duodenum?
Left renal vein
A mass is found above the midpoint of the inguinal ligament in a young boy, what kind of hernia can be suspected?
Indirect
If the SMA is blocked what part of the gut can become ischemic because of no collateral circulation?
Ileum or jejunum
Mass found above and lateral to the pubic tubercle, what kind of hernia can be suspected?
Direct
A direct hernia compresses a nerve on external surface of spermatic cord that passes through the superficial ring, what nerve and what issue can be suspected?
Ilioinguinal (cutaneous)

Loss of sensation from anterior scrotum
Repair of a severely damaged spleen, what organ will you most likely encounter?
Tail of pancreas lying over hilum.
A carcinoma of the anal canal below the pectinate line will migrate into what lymph nodes?
Superficial inguinal
What spinal nerves might be injured during a cholecysectomy?
T7 and T8
What is a merkel diverticulum?
A remaining vitelline duct
What happens in achalasia, and is it congenital or acquired?
No relaxation of lower esophageal sphincter and it is acquired
Where is a spigelin hernia?
On the linea semiluminaris between the muscles of the abdomen.
Where would stomach cancer metastasize to?
Celiac nodes
What can you expect to see in an xray of a stomach?
Air bubbles
Where would blood collect in a rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm?
Retrovesical space
In order to enlarge the deep inguinal ring in surgery, where should an incision be made?
Transversalis fascia
Pain from cancer of the pancreas is referred to?
T6-T9
Woman has heartburn and epigastric pain, a portion of her stomach is in diaphragm. What gets compressed, what happens as a result of this compression?
Vagus nerve

Decreased acid production
Which of the parts of the pancreas is a tumor likely to be located?
Head blocking the common bile duct

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Repair of a hernial sac from an inguinal hernia cuts a thin white tube with little blood, what is it?
Vas deferens
What are the boundaries for urine with a urethral rupture?
Facia lata keeps it from going down the legs, colle's fascia keeps it from entering ischoanal fossa.
If a surgeon made an incision in the right lower quadrant for an appendectomy, what would be the layers he would cut through?
Skin, camper's fascia, scarpa's fascia, deep investing fascia, aponeurosis of ext oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis, transversalis fascia, extraperitoneal fat and fascia, parietal peritoneum
An ulcer at the angular inciser of stomach forms a tumor at the angular notch, where is it likely to spread?
Lesser curvature
Traumatic rupture of diaphragm on left side would result in what?
Seeing abdominal viscera in thoracic cavity on an xray
What kind of issue begins in the umbilical region and spreds to the right iliac fossa?
Appendicitis
Distended abdomen, acute pain in lower left quadrant is a sign of?
Twisting of sigmoid colon
An ulcer in the first part of the duodenum would affect what structure?
Gastroduodenal artery, immediately posterior to it
Occluded IMA, if no collateral what risks ischemia?
Sigmoid colon
Enlarged veins common in portal hypertension?
Superior rectal
Esophageal
Azygous
Superficial epigastric
Periumbilical
Middle and Inferior rectal veins
Gallbladder pain tract?
Celiac plexus to greater splanchnic
Umbilical pain tract?
T9-T11 to lesser splanchnic
Ischemic decending colon from a thrombembolism, where did it originate?
IMA
Hemorrhoids enlarge from what two sources?
IMA, Internal iliac, internal pudendal
The 3rd part of the duodenum would become obstructed by what artery enlarging?
SMA
"Nutcracker effect"
Pain in epigastric region?
Forgut issue, sometimes a duodenal ulcer
Structure immediately posterior to epiploic foramen that can get damaged?
IVC
Numb anterior scrotum and adjacent thigh is from what nerve damage?
Ilioinguinal
tingling in lateral thigh from damage to what nerve during a hernia repair?
Lateral femoral cutaneous
What is the duct of Lushka?
Same as duct of santorini, can be a leaking issue if the main pancreatic duct is ligated following a gallbladder removal.
Where is a common site to find gallstones?
Ileocecal region
What does the ligament of Trietz suspend and where does it come from?
The 4th part of the duodenum.

Comes from the Rt. Crus
Where is pain from the Ureter felt?
T11-L2
What is posterior to the right common iliac artery?
The right common iliac vein
Where does fluid collect in the peritoneal cavity?
Rectouterine pouch
What two ribs overlie the kidneys?
11 and 12
A hernation has only transversalis facia and parietal peritoneum membrane, is it indirect or direct?
Direct
Where does acites come from?
Retroperitoneal veins
Where is the gallbladder located on the body wall?
9th costal cartilage and semiluminaris line
What is the cremasteric muscle made from and innervated by?
Internal abdominal oblique muscle and genital branch of genitofemoral nerve
Where does testicular/ovarian cancer metastasize?
To lumbar nodes/ aortic nodes
Where does scrotal cancer metastasize?
Superficial inguinal lymph nodes
What is hydrocele?
Fluid accumulation between visceral and parietal layers of tunica vaginalis
What is varicocele?
Dilated veins of pampiniform plexus.
What type of hernia is medial to the epigastric vessels?
Direct
What type of hernia is the result of a non-obliterated processus vaginalis?
Indirect
How do you palpate for an indirect hernia?
Find femoral artery, move medial and superior.

These are medial to femoral and lateral to epigastric vessels
What type of hernia presents below the inguinal ligament?
Femoral hernia
What is the median umbilical ligament a remnant of?
The urachus which is a remnant of the allantois stalk in the embryo.
Other types of hernias?
Umbilical, incisional, spigelian
14 year old boy presents with a bulge laterally and no bulge medially, what type of hernia is this?
Indirect
During surgery of an inguinal hernia what two nerves are at risk?
Femoral branch of genitofemoral and ilioinguinal nerve
Ulceration of posterior wall of the stomach can lead to what?
Fluid filling the omental bursa.

Rupture of the splenic artery.
Where would one palpate the liver?
Right side below the costal margin
What results from an incompetant cardiac sphincter that allows acid in the esophagus?
GERD

Gastroesophageal reflux disorder
What is special about the greater omentum?
It is the "policeman" of the stomach and migrates to areas of inflammation
What is Barrett esophagus?
Where the epithelium in the esophagus changes from stratified squamous to simple columnar.

Secondary to GERD, smoking, drinking
Dilation of esophageal veins from portal hypertension are called?
Esophageal varices

If they rupture you DIE FAST from MASSIVE internal bleeding

Anastamoses between left gastric and azygous vein
What is jaundice the result of?
Bilirubin re-entering blood if the liver cannot reabsorb it.
What is the result of pancreatic carcinoma?
Obstructive jaundice
What predisposes someone to carcinoma of stomach?
Chronic gastritis, pernicious anemia, polyps
Splenic rupture can result from?
Fracturing ribs 9-11
When will the spleen be enlarged?
Liver failure, sickle cell, infections, leukemia, lymphoma

Extends past the midaxillary line!
Who is more likely to contract gallstones?
Females 40 years and up
What is Hartmann's pouch?
out-pouching of the wall of the gallbladder at the junction of the neck of the gallbladder and the cystic duct.

Very common place to get an obstruction
Symptoms of gallstones?
Spasms after eating, jaundice, referred pain to right shoulder from gallbladder irritating diaphragm, severe epigastric (right quadrant) pain
What are cholesterol stones called?
Cholelithiasis

20% men over 75 years
35% of women over 75 years
What are brown pigment gallstones almost always associated with?
Bacterial cholangitis
What artery provides the anastamoses between the SMA and IMA?
Marginal
Congenital megacolon, without any enteric nervous system. More common in males.
Hirschsprung's disease

Neural crest cells fail to migrate
Sites of portal-caval anastamoses
Esophageal veins

Paraumbilical veins

Veins of anal canals

Retroperitoneal veins
What is the recto-anal watershed?
Division of rectal drainage by pectinate line. Endoderm changes to ectoderm.
Upper and middle rectum drainage
Upper: Inferior mesenteric nodes

Middle: Internal iliac nodes
Referred pain localizes when....
Organ irritates body wall
Yellowing of the sclerae of the eyes.
Scleral Icterus
What is marked by intermittent, colicky abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation, dehydration, ischemia?
Bowel obstruction
Where does diverticular disease usually affect people?
Decending and sigmoidal colon.
What is an Ostomy?
A bag connecting somethign to teh outside wall
What is annular pancreas?
When the ventral bud that rotates is split.
What is Cirrhosis?
Hepatic fibrosis from liver damage. Increased portal vein pressure
Decreased blood proteins.
Decreased clotting factors.
Edema, jaundice, splenomegaly
Neurological damage
What is atrophic gastritis?
When you lack intrinsic factor and cannot absorb B12 in the gut.

Neurological problems that mimic MS
How is the mucosa different in the fundic stomach vs. the pyloric?
Fundic: Short pits, long glands

Pyloric: long pits, short glands
What types of cells are found in the fundic stomach?
Mucous neck cells, chief cells, parietal cells, enteroendocrine cells, undifferentiated cells
What do you need B12 for?
RBC production

Nerve impulses
Phases of alcoholic liver disease?
Fatty liver

Alcoholic hepatitis

Cirrhosis
Which stage of liver disease is reversible?
Fatty liver
What stage of liver disease shows Zone 3 necrosis and an increase in neutrophils?
Hepatitis
What type of disorder is marked by zone 3 hypoxia in the liver while zones 1 and 2 look normal?
Cardiac cirrhosis
Two types of hiatal hernias?
Sliding: esophagus pushed through diaphragm

Paraesophageal: stomah or bowel pushed through diaphragm
Kidney stones reflect pain where?
T11-L2 from "loin to groin"

Uric acid crystals and bowel pain.
BPH
Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy

Affects Transitional zone (In central zone) where there is a massive enlargement and often a collapsed urethra
Prostatic Carcinoma
Affects Peripheral zone

Radical prostectomy
Prostatic adrenocarcinoma
Metastasizes into vertebral column via Batson's plexus = no valves
Hystersalpingogram
Injections of uterus and tubes with a radiopaque dye.

Dye should fill tubes and leaks into peritoneal cavity via oviduct.
What procedure uses an intravaginal scope to view abdominal cavities?
Culdoscopy - through posterior fornix of vagina
Why does prolapse occur?
Weak pelvic diaphragm muscles, particularly levator ani
What disorder is characterized by the neck of the bladder slipping through pelvic diaphragm causing the urethral sphincter to fail?
Stress incontinence. Intra-abdominal pressure no longer helps keep urethral sphincter closed.
What are the nerves involved in erection?
Cavernous nerves
Factors contributing to erectile dysfunction?
Diabetes
Hypertension
Smoking
Low serum testosterone
How does viagra work?
Enhances relaxing effect of NO by inhibiting phosphodiesterase that degrades cyclic GMP. NO relaxes helicine arteries to allow blood to fill in penis.
In order to repair a tumor in the labia majora what nerve must be blocked?
Pudendal nerve
Reconstructive surgery of the uterus risks damaging what structure?
Ureter
After removal of the rectum, what nerves might be damaged that lead to erectile dysfunction?
Pelvic splanchnic parasympathetic nerves, S2-S4.
What is the landmark for a pudendal block?
Ischial spine
Damage to what nerve leads to incontinence?
Pudendal
Where do external genatalia have lymph drainage?
Superficial and deep inguinal lymph nodes
The ureter passes lateral to what female organ?
Cervix
What is medial to the ovarian vessels in the suspensory ligament?
Ureter passes over pelvic brim medial to these vessels
Where does cervical cancer metastasize to?
Internal iliac nodes - uterine artery comes from internal iliac artery
Sign of BPH?
Urinating at night
Lymphatic drainage from scrotum?
Superficial inguinal lymph nodes
Numb posterior scrotum?
Pudendal nerve
Glans penis, clitoris, labia minora, lower vaginal lymphatic drainage?
Deep inguinal lymph nodes
Scrotum, labia majora, superficial penis/clitoris lymphatic drainage?
Superficial inguinal lymph nodes
Removal of prostate (radical prosectomy) may damage what nerves?
Cavernous nerves from inferior hypogastric plexus from pelvic splanchnics
Anal senosry area
Pudendal nerve
Ligation of what ligament cuts blood to ovary?
Suspensory ovarian ligament
Uterine vessels are in?
Transverse cardinal ligament
Other support to uterus besides cardinal ligament?
Uterosacral ligament
Somatic nerves innervate what pelvic muscles?
Levator ani
Sphincter urethrae
Deep transverse perenial
Bulbospongiousus
Detrusor muscle of the bladder is innervated by?
Parasympathetic NS
What is the blood supply to the prostate?
Inferior vesicle
Internal pudendal
Middle rectal
What does the prostate secrete?
Citric acid, fibrinolysin, serine protease
What is prostate specific antigen normally secreted by?
The liver, small amounts by prostate
What nerves cause ejaculation?
Sacral splanchnics L1, L2
What part of the pituitary makes FSH?
Anterior pituitary
What type of cell makes gonadotropes?
Basophils
What does estrogen stimulate?
Proliferative phase of menstrual cycle
What cells produce estrogen?
Granulosa cells convert androgens to estrogen in the follicle
What is the secretory phase of the uterus stimulated by?
Directly: Progesterone

Indirectly: LH surge
What are the three parts of the broad ligament?
Mesovarium
Mesosalpinx
Mesometrium
After the LH surge, when does ovulation occur?
12-24 hours
Where does fertilization occur?
In the ampulla
What does a pregnancy test test for? What cells make it?
HCG

Chorionic trophoblasts in the placenta
Where is the bladder in relation to the uterus?
Anterior and inferior
How does the mucosa of the cervix change as you go towards the vagina?
Simple columnar to stratified squamous non-keratinized epithelium
What are vaginal fornices?
Continual recesses of the vagina around the cervix
What chemical is found in the lamina rarae (externa and interna) of the glomerular basement membrane?
Heparin sulfate
What is a physical barrier of the lamina densa of the glomerular basement membrane?
Type IV collagen
What cleans the glomerular basement membrane?
Mesangial cells
What blocks Na+ from leaving the loop of Henle?
Furosemide, diuretic that keeps water from being reabsorbed
If a biopsy was taken 3cm below the 12th rib what would it pierce?
Quadratus lumborum and latissiumus dorsi
If a biopsy of the superior pole of the kidney above the 12th rib was taken what would it pierce?
Diaphragm
What features does the Proximal convoluted tubule have?
Brush boarders, acidophilic, more seen in cross section, fuzzy or collapsed lumens.
What does the macula densa do?
It is a specialized DCT that facilitates the release of renin from JCG cells. Detects the amount of sodium in urine.
How much protein is excreted from the kidney each day?
100-150 mg
Where does ADH act on the kidney?
Acts at the collecting ducts
From what vertebral level do the renal arteries arise?
L1/L2 disc
Where does the superior mesenteric artery arise?
L1
What lies just above the origins of the renal arteries?
transpyloric plane
What is the adrenal gland innervated by?
Greater splanchnic nerve
What cells release epinephrine and norepinephrine in the adrenal gland?
Chromaffin cells
The transumbilical plane is at what vertebral level?
L3-L4
Where does the IMA arise?
Subcostal plane at L3
If a catheter were threaded through the femoral artery what route would it take?
Underneath ureter at bifurcation of common iliac.

enters aorta at supracristal plane L4
How do juxtaglomerular cells respond to blood pressure?
They have stretch receptors
What does renin do?
Converts angiotensinogen made by liver to angiotensin I

Angiotensin I is converted to angiotensin II by ACE in lungs
What does angoitensin II do?
Powerful vasoconstricto.

Binds to zona glomerula to make it release aldosterone, which increases sodium reapsorption from collecting duct and DCT to reabsorb more water.
Where does the ureter cross the pelvic brim?
At the bifurcation of the common iliac arteries.
From where does the uterine artery arise?
Anterior trunk of internal iliac artery
Where do the uterine artery and ureter cross?
2cm above the ischial spine
Where do pain afferents from the fundus and body of the uterus travel?
L1, L2 (peritoneum)
Where do pain afferents from the cervix and vagina travel?
S2-S4 (parasympathetic)
Pain afferents travel from ureter to?
T11-L2
If the uterine artery were ligated at its origin what organs would be compromised?
Cervix and vagina
Where do the pain afferents from the distal vagina travel?
S2-S4 PUDENDAL
What nerve and artery pass towards the urogential triangle in the lateral wall of the ischioanal fossa?
The pudendal nerve (perineal nerves)

The internal pudendal artery
A specialization of what fascia forms the alcock's canal?
Obturator internus
If an abscess occurs in the ischioanal fossa, how far anteriorly may the abscess spread?
Can spread to the anterior recess and posteriorly through the deep postanal space to the opposite side.
What would be inferior and superior to this anteriorly spreading abscess?
Inferior would be perineal membrane and superiorly would be the levator ani.
What are the layers and the derivatives of the spermatic cord?
External : External oblique
Cremasteric: Internal oblique
Internal: Transversalis fascia
Two type of hemorrhoids?
Internal AKA piles, can become prolapsed

External - covered by skin, very painful
Pain from a damaged right testis would travel where?
T7
What does the tunica vaginalis form from?
Processus vaginalis a layer of peritoneum.
What level do the testicular/ovarian arteries arise?
L2
Where does the left renal vein drain?
IVC
What lays in the posterior wall of the omental bursa?
The pancreas
During development the portion of the stomach that will become the posterior wall is facing what direction?
Anatomical right
What cells are responsible for the formation of HCL in the gastric lumen?
Parietal cells
Where are parietal cells located?
Fundus of stomach
What three things make up the hepatoduodenal ligament?
Hepatic artery proper
Common bile duct
Hepatic portal vein
What are the branches of the celiac artery?
Common hepatic, splenic, and left gastric
What is the blood supply to the stomach?
Right and left gastrics, right and left gastro-epiploic (gastro-omental), and short gastric (fundus)
Sympathetic innervation to stomach?
T6-T9, celiac, greater splanchnic
What level is the pyloric sphincter of the stomach?
L1
Pain afferents from the gallbladder, bile duct, and duodenum travel?
T6-T9
If the ampulla of Vater is blocked what will occur?
Pancreatic enzymes will back up into the pancreas, possibly digest tissue and backwash into the blood.
Where do the gallbladder, head of pancreas and liver develop from?
Diverticulum of the duodenum
Where does the cystic artery branch from?
Right hepatic artery
The accessory pancreatic duct is also known as what? What is it a remnant of?
Duct of santorini.

Remnant of embryonic dorsal bud of pancreas.

The ventral bud gives rise to the duct of wirsung and the man dorsal duct joins with the ventral head.
What form the walls of the bile canaliculi in the liver?
Hepatocytes
What type of epithelium lines the gallbladder?
Simple columnar
What does the gallbladder lack that gives away its identity?
No submucosa, no glands.
What are the sinuses called in the epithelium of the gallbladder?
Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
What lobe of the liver is immediately medial to the gallbladder?
Quadrate lobe
How will the trachea of a smoker appear?
Thick basement membrane, goblet cells.
What cells secrete lipoprotein and keep the walls of the bronchioles from sticking together?
Clara cells - secrete CC16
Why are there no clara cells in the trachea and bronchii?
Those structures have cartilage to keep them from sticking together.
What is the sinus venosus?
Remnant of the in-growth of vessels into the right atrium. Demarcated by the crista terminalis, it is the smooth area.
What are the bronchial segments of the right lung?
APALMSMALM
From what structure does the hepatoduodenal ligament derive?
Ventral mesentery
What is the name for the muscular structure at the end of the ampulla of Vater?
Sphincter of Oddie
What does the obliterated left umbilical vein become?
Round ligament (ligamentum teres of liver)
What pain afferent levels are from the kidneys?
T10-L1
What pain afferent levels are from the small bowel?
T8-T10
What pain afferent levels are from the transverse colon?
T11
What pain afferents are from the decending colon?
T12-L1
What pain afferents are from the sigmoid colon to rectum?
L2,L3
S2
S4
What arteries serve as the anastamoses around the head of the pancreas?
Superior pancreaticoduodenal to anterior and posterior superior to anterior and posterior inferior to inferior pancreaticoduodenal to SMA
What is the tract of bile from the liver to the duodenum?
bile canaliculi --> intrahepatic bile ductures --> interolbar bile ductules --> r/l hepatic ducts --> common hepatic --> cystic --> bile duct
What vessels lie in the splenorenal ligament?
The splenic artery and vein. The tail of the pancreas is also in this ligament
What vessels lie in the gastrosplenal ligament?
The short gastric arteries and veins.
What vessels lie in the lesser omentum?
Left gastric artery and vein.