Flashcards in Intro To Paeds Surg Deck (14):
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Common paeds surgical probs
Un descended testicle
Umbilical hernia
Imperforate anus
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Bigger umbilical hernia = worse?
Nope
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Ruptured exomphalos first aid?
Cling wrap
Incubator
Call for help
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Look up textbooks for paediatric surgery Jone's clinical paediatric surgery
The
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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
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What causes setting sun eye?
Raised ICP, stretching in floor of 4th ventricle
Posterior fossa tumour?
Pupils are near lower lid
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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.
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How do you feed a baby with cleft palate?
Can swallow, can't suck.
Pour it in with spoon
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When do you fix cleft palate?
6-12 months so mouth is bigger and before they really start to talk
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Lump in childhood, 3 DDx?
Congenital
Inflammatory
Cancer
11
Virchow's node is what and where?
Sentinel node at end of thoracic duct
Almost always malignant
12
Virchow's node in adult DDx?
Bowel, pancreas, stomach
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Virchow's node in paeds, 2 DDx?
Hodgkin's Disease
Neuroblastoma
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