Pediatric Pathology Flashcards
Test for infant death to determine whether respiration took place on a newborn before death
Fodere’s test (hydrostatic test)
Test that involves floating of the stomach in water to determine presence of air
Breslou’s test
Hallmark of necrotizing enterocolitis
Pneumatosis intestinalis
Treatment of Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Early decompression (NGT)
Fluids
Antibiotics
Accumulation of edema fluid im the fetus during intrauterine growth
Fetal hydrops
Common cause of immune hydrops
Rh incompatibility
D-antigen
Causes of Non-immune hydrops
Anemia
Parvovirus B19
Twin-twin transfusion
Prevention of Immune hydrops
Administration of Rhogam at 28wks AOG, and within 72hrs of delivery/abortion
Kernicterus
Bilirubin deposits in basal ganglia
(>20mg/dL) + seizures
Autosomal recessive inability to covert phenylalanine into tyrosine
Mousy odor, MR
Phenylketonuria (phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency)
Most common variant of galactosemia.
Galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase deficiency
Most common lethal gentic disease that affects Caucasian population
Cystic fibrosis
Common cause of death in cystic fibrosis
Respiratory infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Most common cause of death of an infant younger than 1 year old
Sudden infant death syndrome
Most common finding in SIDS
Multiple petechiae
Sleeping position for infants with reduced incidence of SIDS
Supine
Most common tumor of infancy
Hemangioma
The most common teratoma of chilhood
Sacrococcygeal teratoma
Tumors of the sympathetic ganglia and adrenal medulla derived from neural crest cells
Neuroblastoma
Most common cause extracranial solid tumor of childhood
Neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma morphology
Neuropil
Homer-wright rosettes
Blueberry muffin baby
Homer-Wright Rosettes are found in?
Neuroblastoma
Medulloblastoma
Primitive neuroectodermsl tumors
Flexner-Wintersteiner Rosette
Retinoblastoma
Perivascular Pseudorosette
Ependymomas
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