Pediatirc Shelf Flashcards
What causes Acute cerebellar ataxia, opsoclonus, myoclonic encephalopathy?
Neuroblastoma
Where does Neuroblastoma’s arise from?
Neural crest cells
In a kid what can give you an abdominal mass, fever, anemia and weight loss?
Neuroblastoma
What is “dancing eyes and dancing feet” associated with?
Neuroblastoma
What are the diagnostic test for Neuroblastoma?
CT scan or ultrasound of the abdomen. Urine VMA, HVA
What gives you a poor outcome in Neuroblastoma?
High MYCN gene expression456
What childhood tumor is associated with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
Wilms tumor
What is associated with aniridia (absent iris), macroglossia, visceromegally and hemihypertrophy?
Wilms Tumor
What is the diagnostic test for Wilms tumor?
CBC, BUN, Cr, UA and abdominal ultrasound
In a 5 yr old kid what can give you fever, HTN, nontender abdominal mass, abdominal pain and hematuria
Wilms Tumor
What tumor in a kid presents with flank pain, hematuria and a mass?
Renal Cell Carcinoma
What is the most common soft tissue malignancy in childhood?
Rhabdomyosarcoma
What is the most common malignant bone tumor in children?
Osteosarcoma
What translocation is associated with Ewing Sarcoma?
11:22 translocation
What bone tumor gives you cancer in the midshaft of long bones, leukocytosis, elevated sedimentation rate, and lytic bone lesions with onion skin periosteal reaction on x-ray?
Ewing Sarcoma
Which bone tumor in kids give you cancer in the metaphyses, elevated alkaline phosphatase and sunburst lytic bone lesions?
Osteosarcoma
Tennis-racquet shaped birbeck granules are seen? And where are these granules found?
Langerhans cell histiocytosis. These granules are found in the histiocytes
What condition can mimic retinoblastoma?
Ocular toxocariasis
What would the CBC show in toxocariasis?
Eosinophilia
How would you diagnose retinoblastoma?
Slit lamp exam
Where do you fine juvenile polyps and what symptom do they cause?
Found in the colon and they cause painless rectal bleeding
Where are astrocytomas commonly found?
Cerebellum
What brain tumor is associated with neurofibromatosis?
Brain stem glioma
Uniform enlargement of the testicle?
Seminoma