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Pneumobilia vs portal venous gas (mnemonic)
Pneumobilia and portal venous gas are two causes of an intrahepatic branching gas pattern. The two have different causes and implications and need to be distinguished on imaging, and a simple mnemonic can help.
Mnemonic
A simple mnemonic for remembering the difference in appearance is:
portal...
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Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (mnemonic)
The features of fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma can be recalled using this mnemonic:
PSYCH
Mnemonic
P: pseudocapsule
S: scar (fibrotic)
Y: young patients
C: capsular retraction
H: huge and heterogeneous
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Abdominal distension (mnemonic)
A mnemonic for causes of abdominal distension (6 Fs) is:
F: fat
F: fluid
F: flatus
F: feces
F: fetus
F: fulminant mass
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Hepatic capsular retraction (mnemonic)
The following mnemonics can be used as reminders of the causes of hepatic capsular retraction:
CT CHIEF
FILTH E
FITCH
Mnemonics
CT CHIEF
C: cholangiocarcinoma (intrahepatic)
T: treated hepatic metastasis or hepatocellular carcinoma
C: cirrhosis with confluent hepatic fibrosis
H: hemangi...
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Couinaud classification of hepatic segments (mnemonic)
Pauli et al published a "handy" way to remember the Couinaud classification of hepatic segments 1.
Make a fist with your right hand. The fingers should be wrapped around the flexed thumb and the fist should face you. The segments are represented by the following:
segment 1: (caudate): the thum...
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5-F risk factors for cholelithiasis (mnemonic)
The 5-F rule refers to risk factors for the development of cholelithiasis in the event of upper abdominal pain:
fair: more prevalent in the Caucasian population 1
fat: BMI >30 kg/m2 and hyperlipidemia 3,4
female
fertile: one or more children
forty: age ≥40 years
cholelithiasis can occur in...
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