PEDIATRICS

Ethical Issues

Jan 7, 2017 by in PEDIATRICS Comments Off on Ethical Issues

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 28 Ethical Issues MATTHEW P. KIRSCHEN and CHRIS FEUDTNER ■ INTRODUCTION What are the ethical issues that clinicians should anticipate and consider when…

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End of Life Care

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!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 26 End of Life Care VANESSA MADRIGAL and WYNNE MORRISON Although mortality rates for children in developed countries have been decreasing over the…

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Psychological Reactions to Critical Care Events

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!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”> 25 Psychological Reactions to Critical Care Events PAUL M. ROBINS and MARY ROURKE The experience of pediatric critical care is quite likely to…

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Nutrition and Glucose Management

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FIGURE 5.1   Glucose homeostasis. Abbreviation: FAO, fatty acid oxidation. Impact on Cerebral Metabolism The brain exhibits age-specific differences in its response to hypoglycemia. While the mature brain is quite vulnerable to…

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Odontogenic Tumors

Dec 28, 2016 by in PEDIATRICS Comments Off on Odontogenic Tumors

Tumors of odontogenic epithelium Ameloblastoma Squamous odontogenic tumor Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor Keratocyst odontogenic tumor Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (Pindborg) Clear cell odontogenic carcinoma Intraosseous odontogenic carcinoma Tumors of odontogenic mesenchyme…

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Lymphatic Malformations

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LMs have also been categorized according to histologic appearance, cyst size, and anatomical relationship to the mylohyoid muscle [7, 8] (Type 1 and 2, see Table 28.2). Table 28.2 LM types…

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Cholesteatoma

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Fig. 12.1 Endoscopic view of the right ear with an attic cholesteatoma and pars tensa perforation. (Copyright held by Dennis S. Poe, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital) Fig. 12.2 Intraoperative…

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Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma

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Site of spread Route of spread 1. Nasal cavity and nasopharynx Medially through sphenopalatine foramen 2. Infratemporal fossa Laterally through pterygomaxillary fissure 3. Maxillary sinus Anteriorly by destruction and dislocation…

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Sarcoma: Rhabdomyosarcoma

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Fig. 42.1 Embryonal RMS of the right ear. a Cellular spindled cell proliferation of atypical cells with hyperchromatic nuclei and scant, elongated eosinophilic cytoplasm. The tumor is growing under the…

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Reconstructive Surgery

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Fig. 2.1 Radiation effect. This adolescent patient underwent orbital extenteration for a rhabdomyosarcoma at the age of 4. She had free tissue transfer elsewhere followed by radiation. This case demonstrates…

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