Appendicitis — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ is characterized by specialized intestinal metaplasia of the lower esophageal mucosa

Answer: Barrett esophagus

Flashcard 2: Intestinal biopsy with flask-shaped lesions is diagnostic of _____

Answer: Entamoeba histolytica

Flashcard 3: _____ presents with spontaneous chest pain that radiates to the back, ears, and neck

Answer: Diffuse esophageal spasm (GI Pathology)

Flashcard 4: Carcinoid tumors may arise anywhere in the gut, however, they most commonly arise in the _____

Answer: small bowel

Flashcard 5: Budd-Chiari syndrome results in congestion and necrosis of the _____ zone of the liver

Answer: centrilobular

Flashcard 6: Esophagitis with _____ ulcerations is characteristic of HSV-1

Answer: "punched-out"

Flashcard 7: Secondary biliary cholangitis may be complicated by ascending _____

Answer: cholangitis

Flashcard 8: _____ is massive amounts of mucus in the peritoneum

Answer: Pseudomyxoma peritonei

Flashcard 9: _____ gastric ulcers are usually small (< 3 cm), sharply demarcated ("punched-out"), and surrounded by radiating folds of mucosa

Answer: Benign

Flashcard 10: Acute mesenteric ischemia may occur due to a thrombotic or embolic occlusion of the _____ artery

Answer: superior mesenteric

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