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Names in Surgery

Trauma

  • Vermet syndrome - cranial nerve compression by Occipital trauma
  • log roll - rotate pt

DVT

  • saphena varix
  • mayThurmer syndrome - Right illac arter compress vein to form DVT
  • Homan sign
  • Moses sign
  • Wells criteria - predict DVT by Surgery type
  • Paegt schrotter disease - axillary vein block by thoractic outlet obstruction in limb elevation

Variocse veins

kippel trenuay syndrome - absent deep veins of leg

@ Sphano-Femoral-Junction incompitence   
    Tredlenburg test - rapid filling 
    Morrisey’s cough impulse - bulbing of faulty point on cough 
    Schwart test - bulge when tapped 
@Perforators 
    Tredlenburg test - slow filling 
    multiple tornqet test - by levels of perforators 
for DVT 
   modified Perthe's test - check if Deep veins occluded in DVT by  blocking Superficial veins

Arterial

  • Leriche syndrome - impotance by aortic obstruction
  • Crawford classification - thoraco-abdominal aneurysm types
  • deberky & stanford
  • Ortner’s syndrome

Thoracic outlet obstruction

A-V fistula

  • Nicoladoni/Branharny Sign - at compressing arterial fully => :downarrow:

lymphatics

  • vischow node/Troisier sign
  • BRUNNER’S CLASSIFICATION
  • Stemmer's sign - cannot pinch the toe skin due to edema og lower limb
  • Neubulowit surgery - microvascualr reconstruction
  • HOMaNS procedure
  • Thompson's Reduction
  • Charles procedure

Oral cancers

  • Buschke Lowenstein - outward growing penile cancer
  • Verrucous carcinoma/Ackerman tumor - oral SCC that grows outward
  • Patterson Kelly Broun syndrome - also known as Plummer-Vinson syndrome,
  • Commando operation - oral cancer surgery
  • Weber Ferguson approach - mandible reach
  • visor approach - reach buccal ca
  • Lip Split approach- reach buccal ca
  • Abbe estlander Slap - lip flap from opposite good lip
  • Delphian lymph - lymph draining from thyroid

Salivary glands

  • Stenson’s duct
  • Wharton’s duct
  • Fasciovenous plane
  • milan system - FNAC guide for Salivary biopsy reporting
  • Modified Blair Incision - for parotid ca surgery
  • Newman § Seabrook surgery
  • frey syndrome - Sweating on salivation after post-parasympathic ganglion invasion to cheek

Skin & Soft tissue

  • Moh’s micrographic surgery - layer by layer resction and examnation
  • Hutchinson's melanotic freckle- flat melanoma in elderly pts
  • Clarke's classification - melanoma Staging by layer s
  • Breslow classification - melanoma by depth spread by cm
  • Stewart-Treves syndrome

Thorax

Trauma

  • modified Bauxlaw - mortality in Burn pt including inhlational injury
  • colorado classification of concession type

Breast

  • Coopers ligament
  • Rotter’s lymph
  • achinclossi
  • patey
  • schollion

Throid

  • Pizzilo
  • Laheys
  • criles
  • Pemberton sign
  • hartley dunhill procedure - Near total thyroidectomy
  • Jol’s thuroid retractor
  • Plumbersdisease/Toxic multinodular goiter - hot & cold nodule in iodine uptake scan
  • Chvostek Sign - tap on facial nerve to twich face
  • trousse sign - bp cuff
  • Dalrymple sign - upper sclera of eye visisble
  • Moebius Sign - loss of accumudation on severe toxicity
  • Stellwag sign - less blinking
  • wan graffe sign - lid lag
  • joffrey sign - Absence of forehead worinkling when patient looKs up.
  • Von Recklinghausen disease of bone.
  • Casanova test

Adrenal -

  • Pass score
  • Mc Farlane => adrenal cortical ca classification based on size

GI- names

Esophagus

  • Zargar’s Classification.- ** Grading & Prognossis** of corrosive injury staging via endoscopy in 48hrs
  • waterston criteria - for esophageal atresia repair
  • Cameron haight procedure - join esophagus fistula type-b,c,d
  • Nissen’s fundoplication
  • Dor
  • belsey
  • Toupet
  • Seattle protocol
  • Orringer
  • ivor lewis
  • mckeown
  • Cameron ulcers
  • mackler triad
  • Hamman’s sign

Stomach

  • valentino syndrome - mimics pain of appendicitis due to anterior gastric ulcer perforation
  • kocherisation - mobilsation of deuodenum
  • Peterson Hernia - Anti-colic Rou-en-Y path hernia
  • stemmer hernia - in retro-colic rou-en-y hernia
  • carney triad
  • Carney Strotokis syndrome
  • Borcharot Triad
  • Warren shunt
  • Sigiura procedure
  • Forest criteria
  • Child Pugh
  • Bleed criteria
  • Rockall scoring system.
  • Glasgow Blatchford
  • AIMS 65

intestinal obstruction

  • Nobles plication , Charles philip procedure : for Recurrent adhesions
  • Type 1/ wind sock deformity : duodenal atresia
  • Neuhauser sign ; soap buuble like in X-ray of meconial ileus
  • Bishop koop surgery /end-side -ileo-ilostomy : for meconium ileus
  • Hartman procedure - colon procedure in emergency
  • heineke-mikulicz - long strictures mng
  • Finney strictuoplasty ; long strictures mng
  • [ swenson ,svave duhavel ] = megacolon correction

Appendix

  • Alvarado score /MANTRALS
  • pointing sign [patient points pain area ]
  • Rovsing sign
  • obturator sign

  • non -specfifc sign Dunphy sign: Pain on coughing. Aaron sign: Pain in epigastrium on pressing right iliac fossa. Tenhorn sign: Pain in right iliac fossa on pulling right testis.

  • mcburny's incision

  • Grid-iron - split muscle in mcburny point
  • Rutherford morris : cut muscles in mcbury point
  • lanz : at crease of bikini
  • low midline : for perfroated appendix
  • Oschener Sherren Regime

Hernia

  • Hesselbach triangle
  • myopectineal Orifice of Fruchoud
  • Deep ring occlusion test
  • RINg iNVagination test
  • zieman 3 finger test
  • Bassini hernio-raphy
  • Shouldiee hernio-raphy
  • Lichtenstein tension free mesh repair
  • Total Extra-Peritonear repair[ TEP]
  • Trans abdominal pre-peritoneal repair[ TAPP]

bowel tumors

  • bianchi procedure => longitudina ldissesction on anastomosis of bowel to increse length
  • STEP procedure = use staples as zig-zap to delay transit
  • hincheys - CECT classification for diverticulitis from diverticulum

Spleen

  • Kehr’s sign : refers to left shoulder pain caused by the irritation of the inferior surface of the diaphragm due to bleeding from a splenic rupture when a person is lying down and the legs are elevated

Liver

  • Brisband calssification - surgical resection based on segements
  • counard classification - segments of liver based on vessels
  • MEDS - prognosis after surgery and liver failure score
  • PEDS - pediatric liver failure score
  • childpugh - score for liver failure
  • Quincke’s triad - jaundice, right upper quadrant pain, and upper gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Kassabach-Merritt Syndrome - large hemangioma => eating up platelets => bleeding disorders

Bilira Tree & GB

  • Rouviere’s sulcus
  • R4U line:
  • Phrygian cap - a foldin GB => whole GB looks like cap
  • Tokyo concesus diagnosis & severity grading
  • Hartmann pouch - valve at neck of GB
  • Murphy sign @ acute cholecystitis - press on R.Hypochondrium ,patient stops breathing in pain
  • Boas sign @ acute cholecystitis - Hyperesthesia over the region of lath rib.
  • Rokitansky Aschoff sinuses - H/P invagination of muscosa into muscualris
  • Xanthogranulomotous cholecystitis. - rupture of Rokitansky sinus
  • Rigler’s triad : . Features of small bowel obstruction. Pneumobilia + Air in biliary tree, , Radiopaque shadow in ®) iliac fossa.
  • Mirrizi syndrome - GB stone @ neck compressing CBD
  • Bouveret syndrome- GB stones via cholecysto-duodenal-fistula , obstructs gastic opening
  • Rigler’s triad - in GB stone ileus x-ray presentation
  • Charcot triad in choleo-docho-lithiasis- = intermittent jaundice , intermitten pain , intermittent fever
  • reynod's pentad = Charcot + altered mental status + shock/hypotension
  • Burhene technique - CBD stones with T-tube insersion mng
  • Kocher incision - for open Cholcystectomy
  • Alagille syndrome
  • Kasai Procedure /porto-enterostomy

Pancreas

  • Milwoukee Classification - sphinter of oddi dusfunction classification
  • cullen sign - discoloration around umblicus
  • gray ternur sign - discoloration on flanks
  • Fox Sign - discoloratin in inguinal
  • Glascow scale - A.Pancretitis severity scores
  • Ranson criteria - A.Pancretitis severity scores
  • Bathazar score/ CECT score - BEST A.Pancretitis severity scores
  • D'egidio classiciation - Pseudo cyst calssification
  • TIGARO classification - causes of Chronic pancreatits -Puestow’s - chronic pancreatitits join full jejunun into pancreas
  • Duval - chronic pancreatitis join end of pancreas to jejenum
  • Beger’'s procedure - cut head of pancrease
  • frey = beger + Puestow
  • ohasi triad - IPMN diagnosis
  • Courvoisier’s law - periampullary pacreatic cancer CBD dialtion -> GB distention in stones the GB is shrinked by fibrosis by stone
  • Chevror/RooF top incision - form whipples procedure
  • Lonamire transverso procedure - modified whipples with pylorus of stomach left
  • Passaro’s triangle ; m/c site of the gastrinoma'
  • verner Morrison syndrome - VIPoma

Colon

  • Duke /modified astler colle classification : colon ca staging
  • : Perioral melanosis - Putz-jugler syndrom symptom
  • Nigro regime : Anal squamous cancer chemo txt to prevent colostomy

Anus

  • Bascom’s technique
  • Rhomboid flap
  • Horydakis technique-
  • Goodsall’s rule
  • Park's classification with MRI of fistula tract
  • Thiersch wiring
  • Delmore procedure
  • Altemeier repair
  • Posterior Sagital ano-rectoplasty