GPS

General Paediatric Surgery of Childhood encompasses the common elective and emergent conditions that require surgery. Topics include:

The groin and foreskin:

  • Inguinal hernia 
  • Hydrocoele 
  • Undescended testis 
  • Acute scrotum
  • Phimosis
  • Paraphimosis 
  • Acute scrotum 

Abdominal wall pathologies 

  • Umbilical hernia 
  • Supra-umbilical hernia 
  • Epigastric hernia 

Acute abdomen

  • Appendicitis
  • Intestinal obstruction
  • Intussusception 

Skin lesions 

  • Pilomatrixoma 
  • Dermoid cyst 
  • Sebaceous cyst 
  • Lymph nodes 

Head and neck lesions 

  • Thyroglossal cyst 
  • Branchial cysts and remnants 

Pyloric stenosis 

Breast 

Endocrine conditions of Childhood

  • Diabetes 
  • Disorders of growth 
  • Disorders of sex development 
  • Thyroid 
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