Intro To Paeds Surg Flashcards
(14 cards)
Common paeds surgical probs
Un descended testicle
Umbilical hernia
Imperforate anus
Bigger umbilical hernia = worse?
Nope
Ruptured exomphalos first aid?
Cling wrap
Incubator
Call for help
Look up textbooks for paediatric surgery Jone’s clinical paediatric surgery
The
Infantile hemangioma, or strawberry naevus is what? When treat?
Stops growing at 6 months, regresses and it’s gone.
treat Only if on eyebrows and obstructs vision
What causes setting sun eye?
Raised ICP, stretching in floor of 4th ventricle
Posterior fossa tumour?
Pupils are near lower lid
If baby is born with lump near coccyx, what could it be?
Sacral-coccxygeal teratoma (can be small or bigger than baby)
Needs to be excised immediately or else become malignant.
How do you feed a baby with cleft palate?
Can swallow, can’t suck.
Pour it in with spoon
When do you fix cleft palate?
6-12 months so mouth is bigger and before they really start to talk
Lump in childhood, 3 DDx?
Congenital
Inflammatory
Cancer
Virchow’s node is what and where?
Sentinel node at end of thoracic duct
Almost always malignant
Virchow’s node in adult DDx?
Bowel, pancreas, stomach
Virchow’s node in paeds, 2 DDx?
Hodgkin’s Disease
Neuroblastoma
Bilateral cleft lip and missing eye, lowered eye lobes, what syndrome
Goldenhar syndrome:
