BIOL 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Portal Vein, Hyperhidrosis, Ureter
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Yellow highlight = important side notes to remember! If there is a mass, here are the universal questions: site/location of the mass, size of the mass, consistency of the mass (i. e. solid, cystic, etc. ) Is the mass creating certain pressure symptoms (i. e. mass causing the ureter to block, bile duct to be blocked, ivc to be compressed, compression symptoms, etc. ) If there is pain or no pain associated with the mass: what are the 2 most important conditions, when a patient comes in for an ultrasound, pain, mass. The pancreas has a lot of relationships around it: for example: what"s behind, inferior, posterior, etc. to the pancreas, the structures around your pancreas is essentially 70% of your abdomen, example: portal vein. The pancreas has endocrine & exocrine functions: endocrine: secretions directly into the blood, endocrine function produces the hormone insulin to prevent diabetes mellitus, endocrine function of the pancreas islet of langerhans.
