Intro To Paeds Surg

Question 1

Common paeds surgical probs

Answer 1

Un descended testicle
Umbilical hernia
Imperforate anus

Question 2

Bigger umbilical hernia = worse?

Answer 2

Nope

Question 3

Ruptured exomphalos first aid?

Answer 3

Cling wrap
Incubator
Call for help

Question 4

Look up textbooks for paediatric surgery Jone’s clinical paediatric surgery

Answer 4

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Question 5

Infantile hemangioma, or strawberry naevus is what? When treat?

Answer 5

Stops growing at 6 months, regresses and it’s gone.

treat Only if on eyebrows and obstructs vision

Question 6

What causes setting sun eye?

Answer 6

Raised ICP, stretching in floor of 4th ventricle
Posterior fossa tumour?
Pupils are near lower lid

Question 7

If baby is born with lump near coccyx, what could it be?

Answer 7

Sacral-coccxygeal teratoma (can be small or bigger than baby)
Needs to be excised immediately or else become malignant.

Question 8

How do you feed a baby with cleft palate?

Answer 8

Can swallow, can’t suck.

Pour it in with spoon

Question 9

When do you fix cleft palate?

Answer 9

6-12 months so mouth is bigger and before they really start to talk

Question 10

Lump in childhood, 3 DDx?

Answer 10

Congenital
Inflammatory
Cancer

Question 11

Virchow’s node is what and where?

Answer 11

Sentinel node at end of thoracic duct

Almost always malignant

Question 12

Virchow’s node in adult DDx?

Answer 12

Bowel, pancreas, stomach

Question 13

Virchow’s node in paeds, 2 DDx?

Answer 13

Hodgkin’s Disease

Neuroblastoma

Question 14

Bilateral cleft lip and missing eye, lowered eye lobes, what syndrome

Answer 14

Goldenhar syndrome: