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Common Peds Surgical Problems Flashcards

1
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How do you define acute LAD?

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Less than 2 weeks duration

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How do you define subacute LAD?

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2-6 weeks

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How do you define chronic LAD?

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> 6 weeks

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What is the treatment for reactive LAD?

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observation and f/u

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What are the presenting ssx of thyroglossal duct cyst?

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midline neck mass that is near the hyoid bone

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What are the characteristics of thyroglossal duct cyst movement? When do these present? Where?

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Move with the tongue
around 2 years
Near the hyoid bone

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What are the complications with a thyroglossal duct cyst?

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infection

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Why is it important to get an ultrasound prior to surgically repairing a thyroglossal duct cyst?

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To see if there is a normal thyroid tissue

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What causes congenital torticollis? Treatment?

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birthing process shortens the SCM

Usually physiotherapy

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10
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Why does reflux appear to cause torticollis?

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Baby will try to stop gastric juices from coming up

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What does the lung develop from?

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Primitive foregut

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12
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Who usually gets pulmonary sequestration? Which lung side?

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Males

Lower left

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What is the most common associated abnormality of pulmonary sequestration?

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Diaphragmatic hernia

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14
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What are the two types of pulmonary sequestration? Which is more common?

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Intralobar and extralobar

Extralobar more common

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15
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What is the best imaging modality for diagnosing pulmonary sequestration?

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CT, but US can diagnose before birth

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What is the most common type of tracheo-esophageal fistula?

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proximal Esophageal atresia, with tracheo-esophageal fistula (type C)

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What is the 2nd most common type of esophageal atresia?

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Total atresia of both esophagus and trachea

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18
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How do babies with tracheo-esophageal fistulas present?

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Excessive drooling

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What is the simple test for atresia?

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Feed an NG tube in, and see if it comes back.

Gas in the abdomen

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What is the treatment for TE fistula?

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Gastrostomy

Right thoracotomy

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21
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What is the common congenital defect that occurs with TE fistula?

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Cardiac defects

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22
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What is the VACTREL association?

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Vertebral
Anorectal
Cardio
Tracheal
Esophageal
Renal
Limb
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23
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What is the foramen bochdalek?

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Left posterolateral diaphragmatic hernia

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What are the complications of diaphragmatic hernias at birth?

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Pulmonary HTN

Hypoplastic lung

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25
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Anterior, middle, or posterior mediastinum: thymus

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Anterior

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Anterior, middle, or posterior mediastinum: thyroid

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Anterior

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Anterior, middle, or posterior mediastinum: lymphatic tissue

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Anterior

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Anterior, middle, or posterior mediastinum: Heart and great vessels

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Middle

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29
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Anterior, middle, or posterior mediastinum: Tracheobronchial tree

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Middle

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Anterior, middle, or posterior mediastinum: Lymph nodes, (nodes specifically)

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Middle

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Anterior, middle, or posterior mediastinum: Esophagus

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Middle

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32
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What is a sternal cleft?

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Cleft that occurs along the entire length sternum, not just at a single part lik pectus excavatum

33
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At what age is it appropriate to surgically repair sternal defects?

34
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What is an omphalocele?

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Failure of the umbilicus to come back into the abdomen, causing a Midline defect with the umbilical membrane covering it

35
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What is Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome?

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Genetic overgrowth syndrome that predisposes them to malignancies. Macroglossia can occur

36
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What is Gastroschisis?

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Abdominal wall defect causing a protrusion of abdominal contents, caused by a disruption of the blood supply to the developing abdominal wall from the omphalomesenteric duct artery by the eighth week of gestation

37
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What is critical in treating children with gastroschisis or omphalocele?

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Keep them warm

38
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What should be done with the umbilical cord in children with omphaloceles or gastroschisis?

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Keep it long

39
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What is the complication with reverse rotation of abdominal contents?

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Duodenum is now wrapped around ***

40
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In a normal person, where is the ligament of Treitz? Where does this end up in malrotation?

41
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What is the best way to diagnose malrotation or volvulus?

A

Upper GI series

42
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What is the double bubble sign an indication of?

A

Duodenal atresia

43
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What is duodenal atresia associated with?

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Down syndrome and heart defects

44
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What is the cause of midgut atresia?

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Mesenteric vascular accident

45
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What is the characteristic deformity of midgut atresia?

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Apple-peel

46
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What are the rules of twos for Meckel’s diverticulum?

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2 feet from the ileocecal valve
2% of the pop
Ssx before 2 yo

47
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What is a Meckel diverticulum? Ssx (3)?

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A true congenital diverticulum that is a vestigial remnant of the omphalomesenteric duct,

This may cause intussusception, diverticulitis, or massive bleeding

48
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What is the cause of Hirschsprung’s disease?

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Failure of migration of neural crest cells to the end of the gut. This causes aganglionic megacolon

49
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What are the presenting ssx of Hirschsprung’s?

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No meconium within 24 hours.

No gas in the rectum
Dilated and contracted segments of bowel

50
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What is the gold test for Hirschsprung’s disease?

51
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In Hirschsprung’s disease, which segment of the colon is normal, and which is lacking ganglia?

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Dilated is normal

Contracted is abnormal

52
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What is the most common area of involvement of Hirschsprung’s disease?

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Rectosigmoid

53
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What is the treatment for Hirschsprung’s disease?

54
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What is an imperforate anus?

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Colon that does not connect correctly to the anus

55
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Anus ending above the levator muscles usually causes what?

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Fistula between UG and GU tract

56
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What are cloacal malformations?

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Incorrect closure of the cloaca, which is the common opening of the colon and GU tracts embryologically

57
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When are umbilical repairs performed? Why not earlier?

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5 years. Otherwise increase the chance of recurrence

58
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What age range is intussusception most common?

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2 months to 2 years

59
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What are the ssx of intussusception?

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Paroxysmal
Crampy pain

Currant jelly stools

60
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What is the best imaging modality to detect intussusception? What is the classic sign of this?

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Ultrasound

Target sign

61
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What is the sign that can be seen on xr with intussusception?

62
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What is the treatment for intussusception?

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Ba enema study is therapeutic

Surgery if this does not help

63
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What is the age range of pyloric stenosis? Ssx? What gender is more commonly affect?

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2 weeks to 2 months

Non-bilious, projectile vomiting and palpable olive sign

Males

64
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Green color of emesis with projectile vomiting means what?

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Could be ICP

65
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What is the metabolic disturbance that is seen in pyloric stenosis?

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Hypochloremic alkalosis

66
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What is the ssx and findings of a child with biliary atresia?

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High direct bili

Jaundice

67
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What is the treatment for biliary atresia? When should this be done?

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Develops postnatally

Earlier the better

68
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True or false: surgery for a child with biliary atresia is curative

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False– only buys times for a transplant

69
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What are type A- C of biliary atresia?

A 
A = total fibrosis of duct
B = fibrosis of proximal ducts
C = fibrosis of distal ducts
70
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What is the surgery performed to treat biliary atresia?

A

Kasai

Small bowel attached to the porta hepatis, and stomach attached lower down in the duodenum

71
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What are choledochal cysts?

A

Tiny dilations in the biliary stem

72
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Which side are inguinal hernias more common on in males? Females?

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Right in males

Bilateral in females

73
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When should you treat an inguinal hernia? Why?

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ASAP, since it may compromise the blood supply to the testes, or a BO.

74
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When can testes descend at the latest? When should this be fixed? Why?

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6 months

Fixed ASAP to prevent damage to the testicle

75
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What are retractile testes?

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Testes can descend up and down through the inguinal canal.

76
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Why is there an increased risk of CA with undescended testes?

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Increased metaplasia d/t higher temps

77
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How do you tell if it’s undescended testes vs atrophic?

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If you can feel them in the inguinal canal, or see them with US, then undescended. O/w atrophic.

78
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What is hydronephrosis?

A

Ureteral obstruction causing increased water retention

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