G.I. Pathology

The greates amount of digestion occurs in the:

Bile is a ____.

Liver damage may result in:

About 50% of acquired fistulas between the trachea and esophagus are caused by:

Most common cause of acute esophagitis:

A condition related to severe reflux esophagitis in which the normal squamous lining of the lower esophagus is destroyed and replaced by columnar epithelium similar to that of the stomach:

Most common drug causing esophageal ulceration:

Most carcinomas of the esophagus are of the ___ cell type and occur most often at the:

When esophageal diverticulum fill with food or secretions, ____ may result.

Dilated veins in the wall of the esophagus that are most commonly the result of increased pressure in the portal venous system:

Most common abnormality detected on an upper g.i. exam:

A functional obstruction of the distal section of the esophagus with proximal dilation caused by incomplete relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter:

Most common cause of esohpagus perforation:

Gastritis can be caused by:

Changes the normal pattern of the gastric mucosa:

An emulsifier that acts like soap by dispersing fat into very small droplets that permit it to mix with water:

toxic chemicals are changed into nontoxic compounds in the:

How much bile do the liver cells secrete each day?

Most common cause of acute esophagitis:

Organisms most responsible for infectious esophagitis:

Most common cause of acute upper g.i. bleeding:

Most common manifestation of peptic ulcer disease:

Gastric ulcers usually occur on the:

Cronic inflammatory disorder of unknocn cause that most often involves the terminal area of the ileum:

Chrohn's disease can affect:

What accounts for almost 75% of all small bowel obstructions?

A common disorder of intestinal motor activity in which fluid and gas do not progress normally through a nonobstructed small and large bowel:

Symptoms and signs of appendicitis:

Outpouchings that represent acquired herniations of mucosa and submucosa through the muscular layers at points of weakness into the bowel wall:

Diverticula occur most commonly in the ____ and decrease in frequency in the _____.

It is estimated that 20% of patients with diverticulosis with eventually develop:

Sypmtoms of ulcerative colitis:

What area of the colon is most often associated with Crohn's disease:

Second major cause of inflammatory bowel disease:

Several conditions that have an alteration in intestinal motility as the underlying pathophysiologic abnormalitie:

Third leading cause of death from cancer in the U.S.:

About 70% of large bowel obstructions result from:

Twisting of the bowel on itself:

Two major types of gallstones:

What condition often occurs after obstruction of the cystic duct by an impacted gallstone?

An end-stage liver disease refering to the chronic destruction of liver cells and structure:

Most common malignant tumors involving the liver:

Once diagnosed with hepatic metastases, most patients face:

Inflammatory process in which protein and lipid digesting enzymes become activated within the pancreas and begin to digest the organ itself:

Most common cause of acute pancreatitis:

Condition resulting from frequent intermittent injury to the pancreas causing increasing damage that produces scar tissue:

Most common pancreatic malignancy:

Visualization of which structures indicates that the correct contrast scale has been used for a plain abdominal radiograph?

Which organ controls the level of glucose in the circulating blood?

The telescoping of one part of the intestinal tract into another:

What is now considered the major modality for the demonstration of gallstones?

Rupture of the spleen as a result of blunt abdominal trauma can be best demonstrated by what imaging procedure?

Extensive calcification in the wall of the gallbladder is termed:

Apple-core or napkin-ring are common descriptive terms for annular carcinoma of the:

The presence of large amounts of gas and fluid in uniformly dilated loops of small and large bowel, often seen after abdominal surgery, is termed:

To demonstrate esophageal reflux, the patient is often asked to perform the:

Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity:

A colonic intussusception can sometimes be reduced by what procedure?

Most common manifestation of peptic ulcer disease:

If loops of bowel are distended by abnormally large amounts of air and are occupying the central portion of the abdomen, the patient likely has a: