Nephrectomy indications — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What is the most common intra-abdominal organ injured during blunt trauma?_____

Answer: Spleen

Flashcard 2: Benign prostatic hyperplasia may be treated with surgical resection, with the gold standard being the _____ procedure

Answer: TURP

Flashcard 3: Bladder irrigation is used for patients with hematuria to prevent the formation of _____

Answer: blood clots

Flashcard 4: Abdominal trauma can result in superior bladder wall rupture, result in _____-peritoneal leakage of urine

Answer: intra

Flashcard 5: In a renal transplant a patient presenting with fever and leakage of urine into the pelvic cavity 5 - 10 days following the transplant most likely has _____

Answer: distal ureteral ischemia

Flashcard 6: Herniated contents may be at risk for _____, which is the inability to reduce contents back into the abdomen/pelvis

Answer: incarceration

Flashcard 7: varicocele

Answer: increased venous pressure leads to dilated veins in pampiniform plaxus

Extra: scrotal enlargement, "bag of worms" appearancevaricocelectomy, embolizationinfertility