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CH 58 Fetal abdomen
diagnostic medical sonography
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Medical
Undergraduate 2
04/24/2012

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Term
omphalocel and gastroschisis
Definition
Defects that occur when the midgut fails to return to the abdominal cavity from the umbilical cord during the 10th to 12th week
Term
Umbilical Hernia
Definition

When the intestines return normally to the abdominal cavity and then herniates through an inadeyuately closed umbilicus

Covered by skin and subcutaneous tissue

(different from omphalocele)

Term
Meckel's Diverticulum
Definition
Most common malformation of the midgut
Term
Meckel's Diverticulum
Definition
Remnant of the yolk stalk that fails to degenerate
Term
Meckel's Diverticulum
Definition
Usually a small, fingerlike sac, about 5cm long that projects from the ileum
Term
high
Definition
mortality rate with partial situs inversus
Term
Low
Definition
Total situs inversus mortality rate?
Term
total situs inversus
Definition

right side heart axis, transposition of liver, stomach, and spleen, left sided gallbladder

 

Most have normal outcomes

Term
esophageal atresia
Definition
Congenital blockage of the esophagus resulting from the faulty seperation of the foregut into its repiratory and digestive components
Term
esophageal atresia
Definition
if polyhydramnios and an absent stomach are visualized what is suspected?
Term
fistula formation
Definition
If small stomach is visualized with esophageal atresia what could have formed to allow some fluid to pass into the stomach?
Term
  • VACTERL
  • growth restriction
  • Trisomies 18 and 21 
Definition
esophageal atresia is associated with what anomalies?
Term
Duodenal atresia
Definition
Blockage that prevents the passage of swallowed amniotic fluid
Term
duodenal atresia
Definition

double bubble sign:

fluid filled stomach and anechoic fluid filled prox duodenum

Term
trisomy 21
Definition
duodenal atresia is associated with what anomaly?
Term
VACTERL
Definition
Vertebral, heart defects, renal, and limb abnormalities
Term
anorectal atresia
Definition
complex disorder of the bowel and genitourinary tract
Term
asplenia
Definition
no development of splenic tissue
Term
choledochal cyst
Definition
cystic growth of the common bile duct
Term
cholelithiasis
Definition
gallstones
Term
cystic fibrosis
Definition
mucous buildup within the lumgs and other areas of the body
Term
duodenal atresia
Definition
complete blockage at the pyloric sphincter
Term
duodenal stenosis
Definition
narrowing of the pyloric sphincter
Term
esophageal atresia
Definition
congenital hypoplasia of the esophagus; usually associated with a tracheoesophageal fistula
Term
esophageal stenosis
Definition
narrowing of the esophagus, usually in the distal third segment
Term
gastroschisis
Definition
abnormality of the abdominal wall in which the bowel, without a covering membrane, protrudes outside of the wall
Term
haustral folds
Definition
one of the sacculations of the colon caused by longitudinal bands that are shorter than the gut
Term
hemopoiesis
Definition
formation of blood
Term

Hirschsprung's disease

(megacolon)

 

Definition
a congenital disorder in which there is abnormal innervation of the large intestine
Term
jejunoileal atresia
Definition
blockage of the jejunum and ileal bowel segments that appears as multiple cystic structures within the fetal abdomen
Term
Meckel's diverticulum
Definition
remnant of the proximal part of the yolk stalk
Term
meconium ileus
Definition
small-bowel disorder marked by the presence of thick echogenic meconium in the distal ileum
Term
omphalocele
Definition
abnormality of the abdominal wall in which bowel and liver, both covered by a membrane, protrude outside the wall
Term
partial situs inversus
Definition

condition in which only the heart or the abdominal organs are reversed

(dextrocardia o liver on left side, stomach on the right side)

Term
peristalsis
Definition
movement of bowel
Term
polysplenia
Definition
more than one spleen; associated with cardiac malformation
Term
pseudoascites
Definition

sonolucent band near the fetal anterior abdominal wall from the abdominal wall muscles in the fetus over 18 weeks

(does not outline the falciform ligament or bowel as ascites will)

Term
situs inversus
Definition
heart and abdominal organs are comletely reversed
Term
VACTERL
Definition
vertebral defects, heart defects, renal and limb abnormalities
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