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Plummer-Vinson syndrome is iron deficiency anemia + esophageal webs + dysphagia; middle-aged women; squamous cell ca risk.
消化内科Norwalk virus gastroenteritis is calicivirus; outbreaks; vomiting/diarrhea; school/cruise/foodborne.
消化内科Inspissated bile syndrome is thick bile plugging biliary tract in neonates; cholestatic jaundice.
消化内科Zellweger syndrome (cerebrohepatorenal syndrome) is peroxisomal biogenesis disorder; severe hypotension/hepatomegaly/cranial facial anomalies; neonatal.
消化内科Bezoar intestinal obstruction is phytobezoar/trichobezoar obstructing small bowel.
消化内科Celiac disease (gluten-sensitive enteropathy) is immune-mediated small bowel villous atrophy from gluten; malabsorption.
消化内科Milk-alkali syndrome is hypercalcemia/metabolic alkalosis/renal failure from excessive milk and absorbable alkali ingestion.
消化内科Traveler's diarrhea is acute diarrhea in travelers; E. coli most common; also Salmonella/Shigella/Campylobacter/Rotavirus.
消化内科Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome (hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia) is autosomal dominant; mucocutaneous telangiectasias; recurrent epistaxis; AVMs.
消化内科Lymph node-biliary syndrome is enlarged hilar lymph nodes compressing common bile duct causing biliary colic/jaundice.
消化内科Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome is multiple venous malformations of skin and GI tract; bleeding/iron deficiency.
消化内科Post-dysenteric syndrome (Reiter syndrome) is reactive arthritis after enteric/urethral infection; triad: urethritis/conjunctivitis/arthritis.
消化内科Benign paroxysmal peritonitis (familial Mediterranean fever) is recurrent fever/serositis; ethnic.
消化内科Appendiceal parasitosis: Enterobius vermicularis/Ascaris/Trichuris/Entamoeba; appendicitis-like symptoms.
消化内科Gonococcal proctitis is Neisseria gonorrhoeae rectal infection; anal intercourse; discharge/tenesmus/rectal pain.
消化内科Carcinoid is low-grade neuroendocrine tumor from Kulchitsky cells; appendix/small intestine/rectum; carcinoid syndrome when metastatic to liver.
消化内科Rotaviral gastroenteritis is viral gastroenteritis; children; watery diarrhea/vomiting/fever.
消化内科Calculous cholecystitis is gallbladder inflammation with gallstones; 90-95% of cholecystitis.
消化内科Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome) is massive colonic dilation without mechanical obstruction; elderly/bedridden; severe illness.
消化内科Turcot syndrome (1959) is familial colonic polyposis + tumors elsewhere (CNS glioma).
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