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Paediatric Surgery

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Built from Puri — Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology

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5 sections · 44 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic covers

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Examining the Young Patient

    Why a child's gynecologic exam is different, and how to do it well

    • Why pediatric gynecology is its own field
    • The pediatric gynecologic examination: the ground rules
    • What a normal external exam looks like

    3 slides

  3. 03

    Problems Before Puberty

    Fusion, discharge, bleeding, and trauma in the prepubertal girl

    • Labial fusion: when the labia stick together
    • Labial fusion: when to treat, and how
    • Preventing recurrence, and the role of surgery
    • Vulvovaginitis: the commonest complaint
    • Vulvovaginitis: causes and treatment
    • Prepubertal vaginal bleeding: rare but always abnormal
    • Three things prepubertal bleeding must never miss
    • Urethral prolapse: a common mimic of vaginal bleeding
    • Doughnut-shaped urethral prolapse
    • Benign and malignant lesions of the genital tract
    • Genital trauma: two mechanisms to distinguish
    • Managing genital trauma and vulvar hematomas

    12 slides

  4. 04

    Problems in Adolescence

    Pelvic pain, ovarian cysts and tumors, torsion, and blocked menstruation

    • Pelvic pain in the adolescent: the approach
    • Sorting the causes of adolescent pelvic pain
    • Examining and investigating pelvic pain
    • Ovarian cysts: mostly harmless and self-limiting
    • Benign tumors: the dermoid cyst
    • Dermoid cysts by the numbers
    • Follow-up and other benign tumors
    • Malignant ovarian tumors: usually germ cell
    • Ovarian germ cell cancer: outcomes are good
    • Prognosis and fertility after germ cell cancer
    • Adnexal torsion: what it is and why it is missed
    • Diagnosing torsion: a clinical diagnosis
    • Treating torsion: save the ovary, do not judge by color
    • Torsion of an ovarian dermoid and tube
    • Decision flow for suspected adnexal torsion
    • Menstrual obstruction: the imperforate hymen
    • Complex mullerian anomalies causing obstruction

    17 slides

  5. 05

    Summary and Key Messages

    What the pediatric surgeon should carry away

    • Take-home messages
    • Teen with acute right pelvic pain and vomiting; ultrasound shows an enlarged ovary but preserved Doppler flow. Next step?
    • References (1/3)
    • References (2/3)
    • References (3/3)
    • Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology

    6 slides