Diverticular disease — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Which form of IBD involves transmural inflammation with "knife-like" fissures? _____

Answer: Crohn disease

Flashcard 2: What pathology is characterized by a triad of iron deficiency anemia, dysphagia, and a beefy red tongue? _____

Answer: Plummer-Vinson syndrome

Flashcard 3: Angio-_____ is an acquired malformation resulting in tortuous dilation of vessels of the GI tract

Answer: dysplasia

Flashcard 4: Colonic _____ are raised protrusions of colonic mucosa

Answer: polyps

Flashcard 5: Risk factors for colorectal carcinoma include diets with processed _____ and low fiber

Answer: meat

Flashcard 6: _____ is massive amounts of mucus in the peritoneum

Answer: Pseudomyxoma peritonei

Flashcard 7: Whipple disease classically involves the _____ (mucosal layer) of the small bowel

Answer: lamina propria

Flashcard 8: What GI pathology is associated with osteomas? _____

Answer: Gardner syndrome

Flashcard 9: Acute mesenteric ischemia may occur due to a thrombotic or embolic occlusion of the _____ artery

Answer: superior mesenteric

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Flashcard 10: Histopathologic findings of Microsporidium include small spores with a(n) _____ or _____ structure

Answer: diagonal

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