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Radiology
Abdomen Ultrasound
Built from Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology
What’s inside
11 sections · 151 slides
Overview
- Scope of abdominal ultrasound
- Organ systems examined
Peritoneal Cavity
Free fluid, loculated collections, abscess, and peritoneal tumor
- Normal peritoneal anatomy
- Free intraperitoneal fluid
- Ascites: free and exudative fluid
- Free fluid versus loculated fluid
- Intraperitoneal abscess
- Right subphrenic abscess
- Peritoneal metastases
- Primary peritoneal tumors
- Peritoneal metastases with omental cake
Retroperitoneum
Normal landmarks, adenopathy, and retroperitoneal masses
- Normal retroperitoneal anatomy
- Retroperitoneal adenopathy
- Retroperitoneal adenopathy in lymphoma
- Retroperitoneal tumors and fluid
Liver
Diffuse disease, focal masses, portal hypertension, TIPS, and transplant
- Liver ultrasound overview
- Normal liver anatomy
- Fatty infiltration
- Normal versus fatty liver
- Acute hepatitis and passive congestion
- Cirrhosis
- Cirrhotic liver surface and echotexture
- Cirrhosis, elastography, and cancer risk
- Portal hypertension
- Reversed flow in the portal vein
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Liver cysts and hemangiomas
- Benign hepatic cyst
- Cavernous hemangioma
- Liver metastases, lymphoma, and HCC
- Liver metastases
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Liver abscesses and other masses
- Amebic liver abscess
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
- TIPS malfunction
- Liver transplants
- Liver transplant vascular complications
Bile Ducts
Normal ducts, dilation, stones, gas, and cholangiocarcinoma
- Normal bile duct anatomy
- Common duct size and variants
- Mickey Mouse configuration and dilation
- Mickey Mouse configuration of the portal triad
- Dilated bile ducts on color Doppler
- Choledocholithiasis and biliary gas
- Choledocholithiasis
- Gas in the biliary tree
- Cholangiocarcinoma and cholangitis
- Cholangiocarcinoma
Gallbladder
Normal wall, sludge, stones, cholecystitis, and gallbladder tumors
- Normal gallbladder
- Normal gallbladder
- Echogenic bile (sludge)
- Echogenic bile and sludge ball
- Thickened gallbladder wall
- Causes of gallbladder wall thickening
- Gallstones
- Gallstone with acoustic shadowing
- Wall-echo-shadow (WES) sign
- Clean versus dirty shadow
- Wall-echo-shadow sign
- Gallbladder polyps
- Cholesterol polyps
- Acute cholecystitis
- Acute cholecystitis
- Emphysematous cholecystitis
- Gallbladder carcinoma
- Gallbladder carcinoma
- Porcelain gallbladder and adenomyomatosis
- Adenomyomatosis with comet tail artifacts
Spleen
Normal spleen, variants, cystic and vascular lesions, infection, and tumor
- Normal spleen
- Splenic variants
- Normal spleen with splenule
- Splenosis
- Splenic cysts and vascular lesions
- Subcapsular pancreatic fluid in the spleen
- Splenic infection, tumor, and infarction
- Splenic abscess
- Lymphoma in the spleen
- Splenic infarctions
Pancreas
Vascular landmarks, pancreatitis, ductal tumors, and cystic lesions
- Normal pancreas anatomy
- Pancreatic duct and sonographic windows
- Normal pancreas anatomy
- Acute pancreatitis
- Acute pancreatitis
- Necrotizing pancreatitis
- Chronic pancreatitis and adenocarcinoma
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
- Pancreatic neuroendocrine and other tumors
- Pancreatic fluid collections and cysts
- Serous cystadenoma of the pancreas
- Pancreas transplants
Gastrointestinal Tract
Gut signature, tumors, inflammatory disease, obstruction, and intussusception
- GI tract ultrasound overview
- Normal gut signature
- Normal gut signature
- GI tumors
- Colon carcinoma
- Inflammatory and obstructive bowel disease
- Diverticulitis abscess
- Small bowel obstruction
- Intussusception and endoscopic ultrasound
- Ileocolic intussusception in an adult
Adrenal Glands
Normal adrenals, masses, cysts, hemorrhage, and calcification
- Normal adrenal glands
- Normal adrenal gland
- Adrenal masses
- Benign adrenal adenoma
- Pheochromocytoma, myelolipoma, and cysts
- Pheochromocytoma
- Adrenal hemorrhage and calcification
- Adrenal hemorrhage
Kidneys
Obstruction, stones, cysts, solid masses, infection, and vascular disease
- Normal kidney anatomy
- Normal kidney echogenicity
- Urinary obstruction
- Hydronephrosis
- Peripelvic cysts
- Causes of pelvicaliectasis
- Renal stones
- Renal calculus with acoustic shadowing
- Renal calculus with twinkling artifact
- Nephrocalcinosis and diffuse renal disease
- Medullary nephrocalcinosis
- End-stage kidney
- Medical renal diseases with echogenic parenchyma
- Renal mass evaluation and simple cysts
- Renal mass categories on ultrasound
- Simple renal cyst
- Peripelvic cysts and cystic disease
- Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
- Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
- Multicystic dysplastic kidney
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Angiomyolipoma and transitional cell carcinoma
- Angiomyolipoma
- Transitional cell carcinoma
- Lymphoma and infection
- Acute pyelonephritis
- Pyonephrosis
- Renal abscess, tuberculosis, and XGP
- Renal abscess
- Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
- Renal artery stenosis
- Renal artery stenosis (tardus-parvus waveform)
- Renal vein thrombosis
- Renal vein thrombosis in a transplant kidney
- Renal transplantation
- Key points of abdominal ultrasound
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Brant and Helms' Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology