Abdominal Examination
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| What are the GI causes of clubbing? | MILC
Malabsorption (eg coeliac)
Inflammatory bowel disease (UC+Crohn's)
Lymphoma
Cirrhosis
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| When does asterixis happen? What is its other name? | Coarse flapping tremor
- Occurs with hepatic encephalopathy
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| What is leukonychia and what is it associated with? | Whitening of the nail bed, assocaited with hypoalbuminaemia (eg- end stage liver disease, protein-losing enteropathy)
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| What is koilonychia associated with in GI? | associated with iron deficiency anaemia (e.g. malabsorption in Crohn’s disease).
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| What is palmar erythema and what is it associated with? | a redness involving the heel of the palm that can be associated with chronic liver disease (it can also be a normal finding in pregnancy).
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| What is dupuytren's contracture? How to acc pronounce this? | involves thickening of the palmar fascia, resulting in the development of cords of palmar fascia which eventually cause contracture deformities of the fingers and thumb.
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| What is Dupuytren's contracture associated with? GI and other things | genetics, EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL USE, increasing age, male gender and DIABETES.
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| What is spider naevus? naevi? | skin lesions that have a central red papule with fine red lines extending radially caused by increased levels of circulating oestrogen.
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| What are spider naevi associated wth? | Spider naevi are commonly associated with liver cirrhosis, but can also be a normal finding in pregnancy or in women taking the combined oral contraceptive pill.
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| How many spider naevi might flag a concern? | If more than 5 are present it is more likely to be associated with pathology such as liver cirrhosis.
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| What is the inflammation of small blood vessels cause on inspection? | Purpura (rash)
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| What is jaundice and what is the physiological reason behind it? What are the causes? | a yellowish or greenish pigmentation of the skin and whites of the eyes due to high bilirubin levels (e.g. acute hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, cholangitis, pancreatic cancer).
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| What does conjunctival pallor suggest? | Underlying anaemia
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| What are you looking for in the mouth? | Stomatitis, glossitis, candidiasis, ulcers, pigmentation
(Peutz- Jeghers Syndrome - v. rare), telangiectasia,
dentition, gingivitis and “mousy” odour (fetor
hepaticus
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| What is another name for candidiasis? | oral thrush
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| What are you inspecting in chest and axillae? | Inspect chest for spider
naevi, gynaecomastia in men,
and both axillae for loss of
axillary body hair
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| What are you looking for in the close inspection of abdomen? | Movement, distension, scars, herniae, masses, striae,
dilated veins “caput medusae”
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| What is caput medusae and what is it associated with? What might cause it? | engorged paraumbilical veins associated with portal hypertension (e.g. liver cirrhosis).
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| How to check for hernias? | ask the patient to cough and observe for any protrusions through the abdominal wall (e.g. umbilical hernia, incisional hernia).
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| What is Cullen's sign? What is it associated with and what might cause it? | bruising of the tissue surrounding the umbilicus associated with haemorrhagic pancreatitis (a late sign).
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| What is Grey-Turner's sign? Associated w and causes? | bruising in the flanks associated with haemorrhagic pancreatitis (a late sign).
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| What are the 5 Fs of distension? | Fat, Fluid, Faeces, Flatus, Foetus
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| What are the names of the 9 regions in abdomen? | R L hypochondriac region
R L lumbar region
R L iliac region (Iliac fossa)
Epigastric
Umbilical
Hypogastric (suprapubic)
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| What are the four quadrant? | Upper R L
Lower R L
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| What are we palpating for in the abdomen? | – Tenderness (including guarding or re-bound tenderness) /
masses / organomegaly (liver, spleen, kidneys) / abdominal
aorta
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| What is important for palpation? | Look at the patients face
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| What are the causes of hepatomegaly? | Hepatitis
Alcoholic liver disease
Right heart failure
Fatty infiltration
Biliary tract obstruction
Malignancy (metastatic / primary)
Haematological disorders
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| What is Murphy's sign? Where to palpate? What are causes | • Feel for gall bladder tenderness (e.g. acute cholecystitis)
• Patient breathes in whilst you gently palpate RUQ in midclavicular line
• On liver descent contact with inflamed gallbladder causes
tenderness and sudden arrest of inspiration
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| What is Courvoisier's sign? What causes it? What not? | • Painless jaundice and a palpable gallbladder
• Likely due to extrahepatic obstruction
• E.g. Pancreatic cancer
• UNLIKELY to be gallstones
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| How to palpate for splenomegaly? | Spleen moves with
respiration
Ask the patient to breathe
in and out deeply
Palpate upwards to left
hypochondrium
Feel for edge of an
enlarged spleen as it descends on inspiration
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| What are the main types of causes of splenomegaly? | -Haematological
-Infective
-Portal hypertension
-Rheumatological disorders
-Rare causes
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| Haematological causes of splenomegaly? | - Haemolytic anaemias / Leukaemias /
Polycythaemia rubra vera / Lymphoma /myeloproliferative diseases / myelofibrosis
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| Infective causes of splenomegaly? | infectious mononucleosis, infective
endocarditis, TB, malaria
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| Rheumatological disorder scauses of splenomegaly? | rheumatoid arthritis (Felty’s
syndrome) / SLE
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| Rarecauses of splenomegaly? | sarcoidosis / amyloidosis / glycogen storage
diseases
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| What are the causes of renal enlargement | • Hydronephrosis
• Polycystic kidney disease
• Renal cell carcinoma
• In children, nephroblastoma (Wilm's tumour)
• Solitary cysts
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| What type of aortic aneurysm is the most common type? | Abdominal
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| Where do we percuss in the abdomen | Liver, spleen and bladder
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| What is ascites? How do w pick it up? | Abnormal collection of fluid in
peritoneal cavity
Percussion if dull!
Shifting dullnes and fluid thrill(?)
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| What are the causes of ascites? | – Hepatic cirrhosis
– Intra-abdominal malignancy
– Nephrotic syndrome
– Cardiac failure
– Pancreatitis
– Constrictive pericarditis etc
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| What do we auscultate in diaphragm and abdomen? | Listen for normal bowel
sounds (up to 2 min)
Auscultate for abdominal
aortic bruits
Auscultate renal arteries
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| What are aortic bruits associated w? | Abdominal aortic aneurysm
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| What are renal bruits associated with? | renal artery stenosis
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| where might tumours of the upper gastrointestinal tract may metastasise to? | to the lower part of
the left posterior cervical triangle:
– Virchow’s node / Troisier’s sig
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| What else to offer in abdo exam? | • Offers to examine groin
• Offers to examine genitalia
• Requests to do digital rectal examination (DRE
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