Surgical Quiz 4 Flashcards
If you can see red spots under the skin on a neonates what can that mean?
Abnormal vessels in cancer
Vascular anomaly
How much blood in a baby
‘Can of coke’ ~300ml
Cardiac failure, how to examine?
Feel for the enlarged pulsatile liver
Complication of giant vascular anomalies
Secondary thrombocytopaenia, because platelets are being used in the anomaly, depleted systemically and you get bleeding
How to treat strawberry naevus?
Propranalol
What is a cystic hygroma?
Lymphatic malformation (block in lymphatic system during development, causes diffuse swelling/lump
Complications of cystic hygroma?
Sudden infection (cellulitis)
Bleeding
Hard to excise because lymphatics go throughout the tissues
How to fix a Dermoid cyst? Complications?
Cut it out.
Will keep growing slowly if left
Strawberry naevus is?
Infantile hemangioma
Breach delivery can cause what in the neck? Complication?
Torn sternocleidomastoid, may have a lump
Torticollis
How to treat severe torticollis?
Cut between 12-18 months.
Branchial cleft presentation?
Connected to tonsil, and saliva will leak out when eating candies.
Thyroid comes from?
For amen Caecum at the back of the tongue
Thyro-gloss all cyst is made of what?
Saliva goes down the tract, can get infected.
Pathopneumonic of thyroglossal cyst?
Smeared ‘smile’ of redness of infection