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GI-Path
Pancreatic and Gallbladder Disease
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Pathology
Graduate
02/21/2011

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Term

What are the risk factors for cholelithiasis

Risk factors for Cholesterol stones

Definition

Older Women

Native Americans

Diabetes

Clofibrate

Stasis

Weight Change

Cholesterol

Fat, Forty, Fertile, Females

 

Pathophys: Increase cholesterol or decrease bile salts

 

Term

What type of stone is the most common in the US?

Who more commonly gets Brown and Black stones?

Definition

Cholesterol most common in US

Black: Hyperbilirubinemia

Brown: Orientals(infection or Stasis)

Term
Complications of Gallstones
Definition

Cholecystitis

Coledocholithiasis

Pancreatitis

Ascending Cholangitis

Gallstone ileus

Gallbladder Carcinoma

Term

Common causes of Cholecystitis?

What is the pathophys of each cause?

Definition

Chemicals: Obstruction

Microbes: E.coli in 80% of cases of cholesistitis

Gallstones: Irritation and Obstruction

Ischemia: Inflammation, Distention/pressure

Term
What is the histology of Acute and chronic Cholecystitis
Definition

Acute

Neutrophils

Ulcers

Edema

Chronic:

Lymphocytes

Fibrosis

Term
What is the differential for outpouchings of the gallbladder mucosa penetrating the muscle wall?
Definition

Rokitansky-Aschoff Sinuses

Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma

Term

What patients commonly get Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis?

What is the cause in a young healthy person?

Definition

Common: ICU patient with ARDS or DIC

Young: Cocaine

Term

What is the gross and micro appearance of Cholesterolosis of the gallbladder?

Is it pathological?

Is high blood cholesterol a predisposign factor?

Is it common?

Definition

Micro: Foamy macrophages throughout mucosa

Gross: Strawberry Gallbladder

Path: Usually asymptomatic

Blood Cholesterol: Not a disposing factor

Common: 20% of gallbladders

Term

What tumors are indistinguishable from gallbladder Adenocarcinoma

What sex does gallbladder carcinoma affect?

What else is commonly found in the gallbladder if there is carcinoma?

Definition

Adeno of pancreatic or bile duct

Sex: More Women

Association: gallstones and carcinoma

Term
What is the accessory duct of santorini?
Definition
Accessory pancreatic duct from dorsal bud
Term
What pancretic hormones are secreted by which islet cell?
Definition

Beta: Insulin

Alpha: Glucagon

D cells: Somatostatin

Term

Most common autosomal recessive mutation in caucasians?

What is it's pathogenesis in the Pancreas?

Definition

CF

Pathophys: increases viscosity in ducts causing obstrution leading to inflammation

 

Term
What are the symptoms, most common causes, lab results for pancreatitis?
Definition

Symptoms: Ab or Eipgastic pain radiating to the back

Causes: Gallstones, Alcohol

Lab: Amylase, Lipase, LDH

Term

Gross and Micro appearance of pancreatitis

What type of necrosis is common to the pancreas?

Definition

Gross:

Yellow

Firm/Edemaotus

Micro

Fat necrosis*

Inflammation

Parenchymal destruction

Term

Complications of acute pancreatitis?

How can pancreatitis cause Portal HPTN

Definition

Abcess

Pseudocyst

Hemorrhage

Shock

Portal HPTN: Portal and splenic vein thrombosis

 

Term

What are the causes of chronic pancreatitis?

What is the first structure lost?

Definition

Alcohol

Hypercalcemia

Biliary Tract disease(including gallstones)

Structure: first one lost is the acini

Term

What are the major Pancreatic Tumors?

Which is most common?

How do they differ by location?

Which has zymogen granules within its cells?

Definition

Ductal Adenocarcimona(Most common 90%)

Most common in body

Acinar Cell Tumor: Zymogen granules

Islet Cell Tumor Most common in head

Term
What is a Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia
Definition
Precusor to pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Term
What hormone production is most common in acinar cell carcinoma?
Definition

Insulinoma - Most common

Gastrinoma - 2nd most(Zollinger Ellison)

Term
Tumors of MEN-I?
Definition

Pituitary

Parathyroid

Pancreas

(Zollinger-Ellison sometimes)

Term
How is a pseudocyst differentiated from a cyst?
Definition
Psedudocyst does not have an epithelium
Term

What are the signs of pancreatic adenocarcinoma?

What are the major gene mutations associated with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma?

Definition

Signs

Trousseau's Sign: Migratory Thrombophlebitis

Courvoiser's Sign: Gallbladder dilation

Pancreatitis: Epigastic w/ radiation to back

Pruritis

Painless Juandice

Diabetes Mellitis

Depression

Genes

K-Ras

P53

P16

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