Pediatrics Flashcards
What are the features of PHACES Syndrome?
Posterior cranial fossa anomalies Hemangioma (facial segmental) Arterial/carotid anomalies Cardiac anomalies/Coarctation Eye anomalies Sternal pit
Treatment for capillary hemangiomas
Propranolol during proliferative phase
What type of capillary malformation disappears?
Medial (salmon patch, angel kiss )
lightens with time
Lateral (Port wine stain) persists
What is the natural progression of venous malformations?
Grows slowly in childhood, then expands rapidly during puberty
What is cyclical cyanosis in a newborn indicative of?
How can this be confirmed?
Nasal obstruction
Confirm with imaging or try to pass six French catheter
What is the DDx of nasal obstruction in the newborn?
Rhinitis Dacrocystocele Pyriform aperture stenosis Choanal atresia Tumors
What is the most common type of branchial cleft cyst?
Second branchial cleft cyst
Where does the first branchial cleft cyst appear?
Angle of mandible (type 2; more common) Postauricular crease (type 1)
Where is a second branchial cleft cyst found?
Externally: anterior border of SCM
Internally: tonsillar fossa
How is microtia managed?
Early BAHA if bilateral
Surgery at age 5–8
Imaging if cholesteatoma suspected
What forms the inferior turbinate?
Maxilloturbinal
Symptoms of DiGeorge Syndrome
CATCH-22
Cardiac abnormalities (truncus arteriosus, tetralogy) Abnormal facies Thymic aplasia Cleft palate Hypoparathyroidism/Hypocalcemia 22q11 deletion
What condition must be considered if nasal polyps are found in a child?
Cystic fibrosis
What are the Chandler classifications Of orbital cellulitis?
I: Periorbital cellulitis (preseptal) II: Orbital cellulitis III: Superiosteal abscess IV: Orbital abscess V: Cavernous sinus thrombosis
What is the most common pattern of velopharyngeal closure?
Coronal
In VPI, when is pharyngoplasty versus pharyngeal flaps useful?
Pharyngoplasty: good AP motion, poor lateral motion
Pharyngeal flaps: good lateral motion, poor AP motion
Steeple sign
Croup
laryngotracheitis
Treatment for croup
Humidification
Rac epi
Plus/minus steroids
Thumb print sign
Epiglottitis
Treatment for epiglottitis
Low threshold for intubation, Have trach kit ready
IV antibiotics
What upper airway infections require possible intubation
Epiglottitis
Bacterial tracheitis (superinfection after croup)
Retropharyngeal abscess
Major blood supply of the adenoids
Pharyngeal branch of the internal maxillary
What are the minor blood supplies to the adenoids?
Ascending Palatine branch of the facial artery
Ascending cervical branch of the thyrocervical trunk
Ascending pharyngeal artery
What is the blood supply to the tonsils?
Facial artery (tonsillar branch, ascending Palatine branch)
Dorsal lingual branch of lingual artery
Maxillary (descending Palatine, Greater Palatine)
Ascending pharyngeal artery
What patient should be admitted overnight after the tonsillectomy?
Severe OSA
Emesis or hemorrhage
Age less than three years
Patient lives greater than one hour away
How does PANDAS present
Obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms after a group a strep infection
Complications of adenotonsillectomy
Hemorrhage
Pulmonary edema (loss of obstruction & auto-PEEP)
Hypoxemia
VPI
Nasopharyngeal stenosis
Atlantoaxial subluxation (Grisel’s syndrome)
Halitosis
What is the most common neck mass in a child?
Inflammatory adenitis
What is the most common salivary gland mass in a child?
Hemangioma
What is the most common salivary gland neoplasm in a child?
Pleomorphic adenoma
What is the most common salivary gland malignancy in a child?
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
What are the small blue sound malignancies in children?
Lymphoma
Sarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Age-related subtypes of rhabdomyosarcoma
Embryonal - infants/children
Alveolar - adolescents
Pleomorphic - adults
Treatment for thyroglossal duct cyst
1) ultrasound for normal thyroid
2) Sistrunk procedure
Differential for pediatric BOT mass
Lingual thyroid
Thyroglossal duct cyst
Vallecular cyst
What syndrome is associated with endolymphatic sac tumors?
von Hippel Lindau
What is seen in Pierre-Robin sequence?
Retrognathia
Glossoptosis
Cleft palate
What is the order of airway interventions for Pierre-Robin?
Prone positioning
Nasopharyngeal airway
Intubation
Surgery
What mutation causes achondroplasia?
FGFR-3 mutation
Autosomal dominant
What is included in VACTERL syndrome?
Vertebral/vascular anomalies Anal atresia Cardiac anomalies Tracheal anomalies Esophageal anomalies Renal/radial bone anomalies Limb anomalies
What are the autosomal dominant ENT conditions?
WANT-BCS Waardenburg Apert Neurofibromatosis Treacher-Collins Branchio-oto-renal Crouzon Stickler
Findings in Waardenburg syndrome
Pigmentation abnormalities (white forelock, heterochromia iridum) Dystopia canthorum (wide nasal bridge) Unilateral or bilateral SNHL
Findings in Apert and Crouzon syndromes
Large forehead and jaw Exophthalmos Parrot-beaked nose Syndactyly and cervical fusion May have mental retardation
Where are the mutations for neurofibromatosis?
Type I: chromosome 17
Type II: chromosome 22
Features of type one neurofibromatosis
Cafe au lait spots Lisch nodules Cutaneous neurofibromas Acoustic neuromas (5%) Possible CNS involvement