Preparation for Abdomen ARDMS Exam
Bulls eye sign - ✔Ultrasound appearance of gastroesophageal junction?
Rugae - ✔irregular folds in stomach formed by mucosa and submucosal
5 mm's - ✔the undistended wall should not exceed how many mm's
Haustrae - ✔what are the large sacculations of the colon called?
Thickened loops with no change with compression - ✔slow graded transducer
pressure is applied with evaluation of gi tract, what would these findings reveal?
Target sign and pseudo kidney sign - ✔what is the classic appearance of
adenocarcinoma?
6mm - ✔normal appendix has a target appearance and should not measure more
than---------------mm in diameter?
Adhesions - ✔what is most common cause of intestinal obstruction?
Increased activity - ✔Evaluation of motor activity with obstruction will reveal?
Chronic - ✔Is hashimoto's thryroiditis an acute or chronic condition?
Calcium levels - ✔the parathyroid glands secrete PTH which is responsible for
maintaining what levels?
Papillary - ✔what is most common type of thyroid cancer?
Increased PTH levels, hypophosphatemia and hypercalcemia - ✔The lab values
with parathyroid adenoma's will reveal what?
Longus coli muscle - ✔what is the muscle located posterior to the thyroid and
adjacent to the trachea?
External carotid artery - ✔The superior thyroid artery branches off what artery?
Thyroid enlargement, protruding eyeballs - ✔Two features of Grave's disease?
Multinodular Goiter - ✔What is the most common type of thyroid abnormality?
,Innominate artery - ✔The right common carotid artery arises from which artery?
Adventitia - ✔What is the outermost layer of the arterial wall called?
Systemic hypertension - ✔What is most common cause of arterial dissection?
Distal to stenosis - ✔maximum turbulence is usually detected distal or proximal to
stenosis?
Hyperechoic, hypoechoic, and free floating in vessel - ✔Characteristics of acute
venous thrombosis?
Tendon - ✔Fibrous cord that attaches muscle to bone is what?
Enhancement - ✔An artifact that occurs when sound strikes a curved or cylindrical
structure at less than 90 degrees is referred to as what?
Perimysium - ✔A group of muscle fibers are bound together by a connective tissue
layer called?
Capillaries and nerves - ✔The endomysium consists of a network of?
Superior to the bladder in the lower abdomen - ✔The usual location for a urachal
cyst is where?
Popliteal Space - ✔Where would a bakers cyst be located?
Anechoic mass with good through transmission - ✔What is the most sonographic
appearance of an acute hematoma?
Lymphoma - ✔Multiple lobulated masses located around the porta hepatis, celiac
trunk or SMA would most likely represent what?
Fusiform - ✔What is most common type of abdominal aortic aneurysm?
Saccular - ✔Type of abdominial aneurysm that has outpouching which is usually the
result of trauma or infection is?
Pseudoaneurysm - ✔The patient has a mass located in the groin region adjacent to
the artery, which has mixed echogenicity and visable swirling blood, the most likely
diagnosis would be what?
, Cancer of the GI tract and ovarian cancer - ✔The most common source of
metastatic disease to the peritoneum and mesentery is from?
Trauma and catheterization - ✔What is the most common cause of
pseudoaneurysm?
Dermoid - ✔What is the most common benign mesenteric neoplasm?
50% - ✔The one year mortality rate for a 6 cm abdominal aortic aneurysm is about?
Exudative ascites - ✔Peritoneal fluid collection due to an inflammatory or malignant
process, which exhibits fine or coarse internal echoes is referred to as?
Fine needle aspiration - ✔Type of biopsy that uses a capillary action technique is?
Subcostal - ✔Core biopsy of the liver is best performed from which approach?
Lower pole in prone position - ✔Renal biopsies are obtained from which pole of the
kidney?
Upright - ✔Thoracentesis is best performed with the patient in what position?
Matching layer - ✔The material located in front of the transducer that helps to
improve sound transmission by reducing ultrasound reflection at the surface is called
what?
Decrease pulse duration, decrease SPL, improve axial resolution - ✔Purpose of
Damping material?
One quarter of a wavelength - ✔The optimal matching layer thickness is?
Bandwidth - ✔Range of frequencies present in a pulse is called?
Mechanical - ✔What is the type of transducer that has single or multiple moving
elements is called?
Linear switched and linear sequenced array - ✔Another name for a linear array
transducer is?
Linear arrays - ✔Transducers that have multiple elements that are pulsed with slight
time delays are called?
Annular array - ✔Type of transducer that has concentric elements is?
Bulls eye sign - ✔Ultrasound appearance of gastroesophageal junction?
Rugae - ✔irregular folds in stomach formed by mucosa and submucosal
5 mm's - ✔the undistended wall should not exceed how many mm's
Haustrae - ✔what are the large sacculations of the colon called?
Thickened loops with no change with compression - ✔slow graded transducer
pressure is applied with evaluation of gi tract, what would these findings reveal?
Target sign and pseudo kidney sign - ✔what is the classic appearance of
adenocarcinoma?
6mm - ✔normal appendix has a target appearance and should not measure more
than---------------mm in diameter?
Adhesions - ✔what is most common cause of intestinal obstruction?
Increased activity - ✔Evaluation of motor activity with obstruction will reveal?
Chronic - ✔Is hashimoto's thryroiditis an acute or chronic condition?
Calcium levels - ✔the parathyroid glands secrete PTH which is responsible for
maintaining what levels?
Papillary - ✔what is most common type of thyroid cancer?
Increased PTH levels, hypophosphatemia and hypercalcemia - ✔The lab values
with parathyroid adenoma's will reveal what?
Longus coli muscle - ✔what is the muscle located posterior to the thyroid and
adjacent to the trachea?
External carotid artery - ✔The superior thyroid artery branches off what artery?
Thyroid enlargement, protruding eyeballs - ✔Two features of Grave's disease?
Multinodular Goiter - ✔What is the most common type of thyroid abnormality?
,Innominate artery - ✔The right common carotid artery arises from which artery?
Adventitia - ✔What is the outermost layer of the arterial wall called?
Systemic hypertension - ✔What is most common cause of arterial dissection?
Distal to stenosis - ✔maximum turbulence is usually detected distal or proximal to
stenosis?
Hyperechoic, hypoechoic, and free floating in vessel - ✔Characteristics of acute
venous thrombosis?
Tendon - ✔Fibrous cord that attaches muscle to bone is what?
Enhancement - ✔An artifact that occurs when sound strikes a curved or cylindrical
structure at less than 90 degrees is referred to as what?
Perimysium - ✔A group of muscle fibers are bound together by a connective tissue
layer called?
Capillaries and nerves - ✔The endomysium consists of a network of?
Superior to the bladder in the lower abdomen - ✔The usual location for a urachal
cyst is where?
Popliteal Space - ✔Where would a bakers cyst be located?
Anechoic mass with good through transmission - ✔What is the most sonographic
appearance of an acute hematoma?
Lymphoma - ✔Multiple lobulated masses located around the porta hepatis, celiac
trunk or SMA would most likely represent what?
Fusiform - ✔What is most common type of abdominal aortic aneurysm?
Saccular - ✔Type of abdominial aneurysm that has outpouching which is usually the
result of trauma or infection is?
Pseudoaneurysm - ✔The patient has a mass located in the groin region adjacent to
the artery, which has mixed echogenicity and visable swirling blood, the most likely
diagnosis would be what?
, Cancer of the GI tract and ovarian cancer - ✔The most common source of
metastatic disease to the peritoneum and mesentery is from?
Trauma and catheterization - ✔What is the most common cause of
pseudoaneurysm?
Dermoid - ✔What is the most common benign mesenteric neoplasm?
50% - ✔The one year mortality rate for a 6 cm abdominal aortic aneurysm is about?
Exudative ascites - ✔Peritoneal fluid collection due to an inflammatory or malignant
process, which exhibits fine or coarse internal echoes is referred to as?
Fine needle aspiration - ✔Type of biopsy that uses a capillary action technique is?
Subcostal - ✔Core biopsy of the liver is best performed from which approach?
Lower pole in prone position - ✔Renal biopsies are obtained from which pole of the
kidney?
Upright - ✔Thoracentesis is best performed with the patient in what position?
Matching layer - ✔The material located in front of the transducer that helps to
improve sound transmission by reducing ultrasound reflection at the surface is called
what?
Decrease pulse duration, decrease SPL, improve axial resolution - ✔Purpose of
Damping material?
One quarter of a wavelength - ✔The optimal matching layer thickness is?
Bandwidth - ✔Range of frequencies present in a pulse is called?
Mechanical - ✔What is the type of transducer that has single or multiple moving
elements is called?
Linear switched and linear sequenced array - ✔Another name for a linear array
transducer is?
Linear arrays - ✔Transducers that have multiple elements that are pulsed with slight
time delays are called?
Annular array - ✔Type of transducer that has concentric elements is?
