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ARDMS AbdomenBoard Exam
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Denning [Date] [Course title]
,3 layers of Aorta - Answer: Tunica Intima, Tunica Media, Tunica Adventitia
What is the tunica intima made of - Answer: endothelial cells (inner layer)
What is the tunica media made of - Answer: muscle, thicker and more organized layer in arteries
(middle layer)
What is the tunica adventitia made of - Answer: epithelial cells (outer layer)
Where does the aorta arise from - Answer: Left ventricle
Where is the aorta located - Answer: Anterior and to the left of the spine and left of the IVC (most
posterior abdominal vessel)
Name the paired branches of aorta - Answer: Suprarenal arteries, renal arteries, gonadal arteries,
lumbar arteries, and common iliac arteries
Name the unpaired branches of the aorta - Answer: celiac axis (common hepatic artery, splenic artery,
and left gastric artery), SMA, IMA, median sacral artery
Name the anterior branches of the aorta - Answer: celiac axis, SMA, IMA, gonadal arteries, and median
sacral artery
Name the lateral branches of aorta - Answer: suprarenal arteries, renal arteries, and common iliac
arteries
Where do the common iliac arteries bifurcate - Answer: L3-4
Average normal proximal measurement of aorta - Answer: 2.0 - 2.6 cm
Average normal mid measurement of aorta - Answer: 1.6 - 2.4 cm
,Average normal distal measurement of aorta - Answer: 1.1 - 2.0 cm
Normal measurement of iliac arteries - Answer: 0.6 - 1.4 cm
What is the most common type of AAA - Answer: fusiform
What is the most common location of AAA - Answer: infrarenal
Where does aortic dissection most commonly occur - Answer: ascending aorta and arch
What is the most common cause of aortic stenosis - Answer: atherosclerosis
Where does retroperitoneal fibrosis most commonly occur at - Answer: aortic bifurcation and below
What is the most common location of splanchnic artery aneurysm - Answer: splenic artery
Where does the IVC and SVC empty - Answer: right atrium
What are the tributaries of the IVC - Answer: CIV, lumbar veins, gonadal veins, renal veins, suprarenal
veins, hepatic veins
What is the most common variation of IVC anatomy - Answer: duplicated IVC
What is a transposed IVC - Answer: IVC on left side of abdomen and crosses anterior to aorta
What is an interrupted IVC - Answer: congenital anomaly where IVC doesn't extend the entire way to
the right atrium
, Dilated hemiazygos and azygos veins indicate what - Answer: interrupted IVC, IVC obstruction, and IVC
overload
What is the largest soft tissue organ - Answer: liver
The liver is encapsulated by - Answer: Glisson capsule
Bare areas of the liver - Answer: portion of liver not covered by peritoneum/capsule. Fluid cannot
accumulate here because liver is indirect contact with diaphragm
What are the bare areas of the liver - Answer: GB fossa, porta hepatis, and superior surface to the right
of IVC
Where is the porta hepatis located - Answer: liver hilum on the inferior surface of liver
What is the porta hepatis bordered by - Answer: GB fossa and lig teres
What is the portal triad - Answer: portal vein, hepatic artery, bile duct
What is contained in the extrahepatic portal triad - Answer: MPV, proper hepatic artery, and CBD
What forms the right boundary of the caudate lobe - Answer: GB fossa
What is the normal size of the liver - Answer: 13.5 - 15.5 cm
What is the normal size of the pediatric liver - Answer: Normal liver should not extend more than 1 cm
below the costal margin
What separates the right and left lobes of the liver - Answer: main lobar fissure
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