Maternal and child health Flashcards
Liver - most likely cancerous abdominal mass in children Ddx?
Hepatoblastoma
Adrenal - most likely cancerous abdominal mass in children Ddx?
Neuroblastoma
Bowel/lymphatic system - most likely cancerous abdominal mass in children Ddx?
Lymphoma
Spleen - most likely cancerous abdominal mass in children Ddx?
Lymphoma/leukaemia
Renal - most likely cancerous abdominal mass in children Ddx?
<6m = mesoblastic nephroma
- Wilms tumour
reproductive system - most likely cancerous abdominal mass in children Ddx?
Germ cell tumour
CD20 - cellular marker?
B cells
CD10 cellular marker?
Lymphoid progenitor from the germinal centre
Tdt - cellular marker?
Lymphoblast marker (positive in acute lymphoblastic lymphomas, negative in mature lymphomas and leukemias)
CD3 and CD5 - cellular marker?
T cell markers
Chain restriction - cellular marker?
Clonal growth
Wilms tumour - macroscopic?
On gross inspection, well-circumscribed or macrolobulated tumour. Commonly shows haemorrhage and central necrosis.
Wilms tumour - microscopic?
Small Round Blue Cells
blastemal, epithelial and stromal elements (triphasic) in variable amounts
Wilms tumour (Nephroblastoma)
Diffuse Anapaestic nephroblastoma?
Criteria:
- 3x increase in nuclear diameter
- Hyperchromatic nuclei
- Multipolar mitotic figures
Chemotherapy resistant
Rare in younger children
Neuroblastoma - investigations?
Raised urinary catecholamines (HVA creatinine ratio and VMA creatinine ratio)
MIBG scan - specific fro neurogenic neuroblastoma
Small Round Blue Cells infiltrating liver tissue
Neuroblastoma
Homer-wright rosettes may be seen
gene amplification neuroblastoma?
N-MYC amplification on FISH - highly aggressive subtype
Stain for Neuroblastoma?
Positive stain with synaptophysin (neuroendocrine marker)
Mutation in wilms tumour?
- WT1 mutation
- P53 mutation
Wilms tumour - associated syndromes?
- WAGR syndrome (Sporadic)
- Beckwith-Wiedmann syndrome (Imprinting disorder)
WAGR syndrome features?
- Wilms tumour
- Aniridia (Absent irises)
- Genital abnormality
- Retardation
Beck-Wiedermann syndrome features?
- Macrosomia
- Macroglossia
- omphalocele
- Hepatoblastoma
- Wilms
Medulloblastoma histology?
IHC?
- Synaptophysin
- NeuN+
- Homer-wright rosettes
Ewings sarcoma IHC?
- CD99+
Genetics of Ewings sarcoma?
t(11;22)
The small round blue cell tumours?
- WIlms tumour
- Neuroblastoma
- Medulloblastoma
- Ewings sarcoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
Approach to failure to thrive?
- Impaired intake
- increased energy demand
- Impaired utilisation
Pathophysiology of hirschsprungs disease?
parasympathetic neuroblasts fail to migrate from the neural crest to the distal colon → developmental failure of the parasympathetic Auerbach and Meissner plexuses → uncoordinated peristalsis → functional obstruction