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GI Buzzwords
Term | Definition |
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SBO | High pitched tingling sound on auscultation |
Gastric Volvulus | Spherical gas bubble in upper abdomen or chest on xray |
Corkscrew esophagus | diffuse esophageal spasm |
coffee ground emesis | erosive gastropathy |
Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome | Gastrinoma Triangle (porta hepatis, pancreatic neck, 3rd part of duodenum) |
Gastric (esophageal) Malignancy | Virchow Node, Sister Mary Joseph Nodule |
UC | always involves the rectum |
UC | Extends in a continuous, circumferential pattern |
Hallmark- bloody diarrhea | UC |
Complication of toxic megacolon | UC |
Hydrogen Breath Test | Lactase deficiency |
Mcburney's point | appendicitis |
Ischemic Bowel | sudden, severe abdominal pain out of proportion to exam |
Barrett Esophagus | GERD complication; metastatic cells replace normal epithelium |
Birds Beak Sign | Achalasia |
Mediastinal Crunch (hammen's sign) | Boerhaave syndrome |
Gastric PUD | increased post prandial epigastric pain |
Rome IV criteria | IBS |
specific to proximal small intestine | celiac dz |
dermatitis herpetiformis | celiac dz |
thumb printing on imaging | UC |
Crohn Disease | MC site- terminal ileum, can occur anywhere in the digestive tract from mouth to anus |
stellate ulcers, skip lesions, cobblestoning | UC |
Scalloping | Celiac Dz |
fecal lactoferrin test | acute diarrhea |
fecal fat | malabsorption syndromes |
pneumatosis intestinalis on xray | necrotizing entercolitis |
double bubble sign | intestinal volvulus in children |
corkscrew duodenum | intestinal volvulus in children |
currant jelly stool | intusseption |
palpable sausage-shaped mass | intusseption |
Target sign on US | Intusseption |
olive shaped mass RUQ | pyloric stenosis in children |
rule of 2s | merkel diverticulum |
Boa's Sign | cholecystitis |
Charcot's Triad (fever, RUQ pain, jaundice) | Cholangitis |
Reynolds Pentas (charcot's + hypotension, AMS) | acute suppurative cholangitis |
Beads on a string MRCP | Primary sclerosing cholangitis |
extreme pruritus --> excoriation | primary sclerosing cholangitis |
Grey turner's sign, cullen's sign | acute pancreatitis |
Ranson's Criteria | severity scoring for acute pancreatitis |
Kayser-Fleischer rings | Wilson's Disease (excess copper) |
Hallmark- dyspepsia | PUD |
Pneumatosis intestinalis hallmark xray | necrotizing enterocolitis |