GI Anatomy: Abdominal Viscera I & II

The hepatic portal vein drains all of the following EXCEPT:

Your patient presents to you with severe pain in their suprapubic region. What might be your diagonosis?

Which of the following veins drains the abdominal esophagus?

Which nerve is responsible for relaxation of the rectal sphincter?

Which of the following is NOT a function of the spleen?

After falling off a ladder and landing on a pipe on the right hypochondric area of of the abdomen, Billy suffered compressive trauma to the right anterior lateral segment of the liver (region VI). What structure is he most likely to have also damaged?

Which of the following is not a cause of acute pancreatitis?

Which consequence of hepatic portal hypertension would cause the highest risk of mortality?

Which of the following do NOT drain into the hepatic portal vein?

Omental appendices are associated with which structure?

Which of the following nerves does NOT carry parasympathetic signals to the enteric nervous system?

Which parts of the large intestine are primary retroperitoneal structures?
I: Cecum
II: Ascending Colon
III: Transverse Colon
IV: Descending Colon
V: Sigmoid Colon

After a previous appendectomy, your patient presents to you with some of the exact same symptoms 2 years later. What might you suspect as a cause?

A stab wound that penetrates the tail of the pancreas is likely to damage which other structure?

Which gastric artery does NOT branch of the splenic artery?

A stab wound through the anterior abdomen that severs the left gastro-omental artery could also damage which other organ?

While performing an operation to remove a cancerous 4th region of the duodenum, the young resident slips and slices what structure immediately superficial to his intended target?

True or False: The anatomic lobes of the liver are determined by the location of the falsiform ligament.

The "eaten apple sign" is associated with what disease?

An ileal conduit is surgical technique used most often on patients with what type of cancer?

True or False: The hepatic artery is the primary blood supply to the liver.

True or False: A large gall stone at the Sphincter of Oddi would block all drainage from the gall bladder, kidney, and the pancreas.

Which of the following arteries does NOT supply the esophagus?

After attempting his first McTwist while snowboarding, you patient landed on his left side on the edge of a halfpipe. He arrives at the ER and x-rays show broken left 9th and 10th ribs in two places. After treating him for life threatening flail chest, he continues to degrade goes into shock. A new x-ray shows a pneumothorax and massive peritoneal effusion. What are you most concerned about?

Which of the following arteries does NOT take its derivative from the celiac trunk?

After an appendectomy, the stump of the appendix is sometimes inverted and buried into what structure?

A disease affecting development of the plicae circulares would most directly affect which organ?

In which GI structure do you find Peyer's patches?

Which of the following is the largest organ of the body?

The splenic artery travels through which ligament?

Where would you initially feel pain from appendicitis?

During a liver transplant, the surgeon must cut through what structure when severing the portal triad?

This hepatic ligament is a fibrous remnant of fetal circulation:

All intestinal lymph drains through the intestinal trunk into what lymphatic structure?

After performing his first peritoneocentesis, the intern realizes he forgot to pull on the skin before inserting the needle. The attending orders an x-ray to assess the damage. What might the x-ray show?

The esophagus exits the thoracic cavity through the diaphragm at which vertebral level?