Congenital abdominal wall defects — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: The iliohypogastric nerve is commonly injured due to post abdominal surgery _____

Answer: sutures

Flashcard 2: _____ is a congenital hypertrophy of the pyloric smooth muscle

Answer: Pyloric stenosis

Flashcard 3: If a patient has a varicocele, consider surgical ligation or _____ if associated with pain or infertility

Answer: catheter embolization

Flashcard 4: Umbilical hernias are soft, benign, and _____

Answer: reducible (reducible or non reducible?)

Flashcard 5: What is the treatment for congenital hydrocephalus?_____

Answer: Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Flashcard 6: Which type of hernia is most likely to present with incarceration or strangulation?_____

Answer: Femoral hernia

Flashcard 7: congenital pharyngo-cutaneous fistula

Answer: persistence of 3rd branchial cleft and pouch

Extra: fistula between tonsillar area, cleft in neck

Flashcard 8: gastroschisis

Answer:

Extra: visible abdominal contents of newborn; not covered by peritoneumextrusion of abdominal contents through abdominal folds

Flashcard 9: What are the 5 transesophageal embryological anamolies?

Answer: - pure EA - pure TEF - proximal TEF - distal TEF - double TAF