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Flashcards by Hannah Casillas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Hannah Casillas
over 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| "Ball on the Wall" | When a polyp appears to be a round object, like a ball, that is stuck to the gallbladder wall |
| Biliary Colic | Pain in the RUQ |
| Champagne Sign | The 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) |
| Cholecystokinin | The hormone produced by the duodenum that causes the gallbladder to contract |
| Choledocholithiasis | The presence of gallstones in the biliary tree |
| Cholelithiasis | Gallstones |
| Cholesterolosis | A 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 |
| Chyme | Partially digested food from the stomach |
| Comet-tail artifact | Several small, highly reflective interfaces |
| Courvoisier Gallbladder | Clinical 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 |
| Crohn Disease | Chronic inflammatory bowel disease that leads to thickening and scarring of the bowel walls, leading to chronic pain and recurrent bowel obstruction |
| Cystic Duct | Connects the GB to the CHD |
| Duplication of the GB | Having two gallbladders that are often, but not always, paired with their own cystic ducts |
| Emphysematous | Abnormal distention of an organ with gas or air |
| Empyema | Presence or collection of pus |
| Floating gallbladder | A gallbladder that is highly mobile and thus prone to torsion |
| Gallbladder torsion | Twisting of the vascular supply to the gallbladder |
| Hartmann Pouch | An outpouching of the gallbladder neck |
| Hemolytic Anemia | Destruction of red blood cells |
| Hepatization of the GB | Situation in which the GB is completely filled with tumefactive sludge, causing the GB to appear to appear isoechoic to the liver tissue |
| Hydropic GB | An enlarged GB; also referred to as a mucocele of the GB |
| Hyperalimentation | The intravenous administration of nutrients and vitamins |
| Hyperplastic Cholecystosis | A group of proliferative and degenerative gallbladder disorders, which includes both adenomyomatosis and cholesterolosis |
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