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