Week 2 - Acute Pediatric Abdomen Studyguide Questions And Correct Answers

WEEK 2 - ACUTE PEDIATRIC ABDOMEN STUDYGUIDE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. What are common indications for GI tract sonography?

Answer:
Blood in stool, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

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2. What creates the normal GI "gut signature" on ultrasound?

Answer:
Alternating hyperechoic and hypoechoic bowel-wall layers.

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3. What is the echogenicity of the serosa?

Answer:
Echogenic.

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4. What is the echogenicity of the muscularis propria?

Answer:
Hypoechoic.

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5. What is the echogenicity of the submucosa?

Answer:
Echogenic.

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6. What is the echogenicity of the deep mucosa?

Answer:
Hypoechoic.

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7. What is the echogenicity of the superficial mucosa?

Answer:
Echogenic.

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8. What is normal bowel wall thickness when distended?

Answer:
About 3 mm or less.

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9. What is normal bowel wall thickness when non-distended?

Answer:
About 5 mm or less.

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10. What transverse appearance can normal bowel have?

Answer:
Bull's-eye or target appearance.

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11. Where are the cecum and appendix usually located?

Answer:
Right lower quadrant (RLQ).

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12. cated sonographically?

Answer:
Inferior to the pancreas.

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13. Where is the hepatic flexure located?

Answer:
Inferior to the right liver lobe; it may mimic the gallbladder.

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14. Where is the splenic flexure located?

Answer:
Inferior to the spleen; it may mimic the left kidney.

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15. Where is the sigmoid colon located in females?

Answer:
Posterior to the uterine body/fundus and in the left adnexa.

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16. Where is the rectum located in females?

Answer:
Posterior to the uterus and vagina.

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17. Where is the rectum located in males?

Answer: