Abdominal Examination

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Kidney

  • Anatomy of the kidney
  • Diagnostic criteria for SLE
  • SLE - What can you see? – Can you tie this all together
  • Why did they have a transplant?
  • What are the potential complications of renal transplantation?
  • What is this? peritoneal dialysis tubing
  • Genetics of APKD
  • Differentiate spleen and kidney on physical examination
  • Where is the spleen?
  • What causes an enlarged spleen?
  • Causes of a LIF mass?
  • AAA

  • Differential Diagnosis AAA?
  • Why is this AAA?
  • Position of femoral arteries?
  • When would an operation be appropriate?
  • Why would he have lost toes? (trash foot)
  • What advice would you give the patient?
  • Colostomy

  • Why would a patient have one? / Ops leaving stoma?
  • Different types of stomas
  • Differences between a ileostomy and a colostomy
  • What would you like to know about the stoma? Would you repair the hernia (parastomal) and why?
  • Hernias

  • Differentiate between direct and indirect inguinal hernia
  • Have you seen any hernia repairs in theatre - what sort of hernia repairs do you know, what do you think this is?
  • Complications of hernias
  • Features of an incisional hernia, does it need repairing?
  • Scars

  • What procedure is this scar from?
  • Liver

  • Differential Diagnosis hepatomegaly
  • Which is likely in this patient
  • Peripheral signs of chronic liver disease
  • Peripheral signs of other liver diseases


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