Flashcards
Gallbladder
Cards in this deck (24)
- 1"Ball on the Wall"When a polyp appears to be a round object, like a ball, that is stuck to the gallbladder wall
- 2Biliary ColicPain in the RUQ
- 3Champagne SignThe effect of dirty shadowing reverberation, or ring-down artifact caused by gas or gas bubbles produced by bacteria within the nondependent gallbladder wall (Usually anterior)
- 4CholecystokininThe hormone produced by the duodenum that causes the gallbladder to contract
- 5CholedocholithiasisThe presence of gallstones in the biliary tree
- 6CholelithiasisGallstones
- 7CholesterolosisA condition that results from the disturbance in cholesterol metabolism and accumulation of cholesterol typically within a focal region of the gallbladder wall; may be diffuse and referred to as a strawberry gallbladder
- 8ChymePartially digested food from the stomach
- 9Comet-tail artifactSeveral small, highly reflective interfaces
- 10Courvoisier GallbladderClinical detection of an enlarged, palpable gallbladder caused by a biliary obstruction in the area of the pancreatic head; typically caused by a pancreatic head mass
- 11Crohn DiseaseChronic inflammatory bowel disease that leads to thickening and scarring of the bowel walls, leading to chronic pain and recurrent bowel obstruction
- 12Cystic DuctConnects the GB to the CHD
- 13Duplication of the GBHaving two gallbladders that are often, but not always, paired with their own cystic ducts
- 14EmphysematousAbnormal distention of an organ with gas or air
- 15EmpyemaPresence or collection of pus
- 16Floating gallbladderA gallbladder that is highly mobile and thus prone to torsion
- 17Gallbladder torsionTwisting of the vascular supply to the gallbladder
- 18Hartmann PouchAn outpouching of the gallbladder neck
- 19Hemolytic AnemiaDestruction of red blood cells
- 20Hepatization of the GBSituation in which the GB is completely filled with tumefactive sludge, causing the GB to appear to appear isoechoic to the liver tissue
- 21Hydropic GBAn enlarged GB; also referred to as a mucocele of the GB
- 22HyperalimentationThe intravenous administration of nutrients and vitamins
- 23Hyperplastic CholecystosisA group of proliferative and degenerative gallbladder disorders, which includes both adenomyomatosis and cholesterolosis
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