3. Choanal Atresia
• Atresia of posterior nasal cavity
• Buccopharyngeal membrane persistence vs.
faulty neural crest cell migration
• Most common congenital abnl. of nasal cavity
• 29% bony; 71% membranous and bony
4. Choanal Atresia
• 50 - 60% unilateral; chronic purulent rhinorrhea
• 75% bilateral cases have other anomalies
• CHARGE, DiGeorge, Aperts, Fetal ETOH,
Treacher Collins
• Bilateral cases present with severe respiratory
distress and cyanosis
• Newborns are obligate nasal breathers (6 mos.)
5. Choanal Atresia: Imaging
• High resolution non-contrast CT, bone filters
• Suction nares, nasal vasoconstrictors
• Findings:
• medial bowing and thickening of lateral nasal
wall
• enlarged posterior vomer
6.
7. Congenital Nasal Pyriform
Aperture Stenosis
• Obstructed nasal inlet
• Isolated or associated with other findings:
• solitary central maxillary incisor
• Holoprosencephaly
• Hypopituitarism
• Deletion short arm chromosome 18
8. Pyriform Aperture Stenosis:
Imaging
• Non-contrast high resolution CT, bone filters
• Findings:
• thickened anteromedial maxilla
• narrowed anterior and inferior nasal passage
• small triangular hard palate
9.
10. Esophageal Atresia
• Faulty division of foregut into tracheal and
esophageal channels, first month embryogenesis
• 1/3,000 live births
• Associations:
• Trisomy 21 [EA only], VACTREL
• cardiac (up to 49%), MSK (up to 25%)
• CCAM, DA, CDH, biliary atresia, sirenomelia
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12. EA +/- TEF: Imaging
• CXR:
• air filled proximal esophageal pouch
• repogle fails to pass into stomach
• Differential diagnosis:
• posterior pharyngeal perforation - look for
pneumomediastinum
13. EA +/- TEF
• KUB:
• air in gastrointestinal tract indicates presence
of distal TEF - types III, IV, V
• No air in GI tract implies either no TEF or only
a proximal TEF - types I and II
21. Isolated TEF
• Presents later: recurrent pneumonia, difficult
feeding
• Esophagram:
• NG tube, lateral position, cine study
• FOV to include glottis - carina
• Called “H” -shaped but really “N”-shaped
42. Duodenal Atresia
• #1 upper GI tract obstruction in neonates
• Failure of recanalization (vs. other atresias which
are due to vascular accidents)
• Etiology unknown
• 50% associated with other malformations
• 30%DA have Trisomy 21, 28% malrotation, 33%
annular pancreas
43.
44. Duodenal Atresia
• No distal bowel gas unless anomalous bile duct
anatomy
• Vomiting within hours of birth:
• 85% bilious, 15% non bilious
• Scaphoid abdomen
• No imaging Required
45.
46. Duodenal Stenosis/Webs
• Less common than duodenal atresia
• Failure of recanalization
• Web with pin hole lumen→ windsock
diverticulum
• Associations: Trisomy 21, malrotation, annular
pancreas, CDH, VACTREL
50. Normal Upper GI
• AP: DJJ to left of spine at level of pylorus
• Lateral: duodenum courses posterior →
inferior→ anterior→superior
• DJJ quite mobile in young children
52. Malrotation
• Abnormal fixation of small bowel mesentery
• Short mesenteric base prone to twisting along axis
of SMA (volvulus)
• Ligament of Treitz = where duodenum passes thru
transverse mesocolon and becomes
intraperitoneal
• Ladds bands : fibrous peritoneal bands, cecum to
porta hepatis
53.
54. Malrotation
• Normally bowel rotates 270 degrees
counterclockwise as it returns into the fetal
abdominal cavity
• Associations:
• CDH
• omphalocele, gastroschisis
• heterotaxy syndromes
55. Malrotation/Midgut Volvulus
• 40% present within first 10 days of life
• > 90% within first 3 months
• Vovulus can occur at any age = SURGICAL
EMERGENCY
• Symptoms:
• bilious vomiting, abdominal pain
• failure to thrive
56. Malrotation/Midgut Volvulus
• Ladd Procedure:
• reduction of volvulus
• resection of dead bowel
• transection of Ladd’s bands
• small bowel placed on right
• colon placed on left
57. Midgut Volvulus: Imaging
• Plain films:
• might be normal
• distention of stomach and proximal duodenum
• diffuse small bowel dilatation due to ischemia
• pneumatosis, pneumperitoneum, PV gas
58. Malrotation
• UGI:
• DJJ to right of midline
• DJJ too low +/- extra duodenal loops
• Jejunal loops in RUQ
• If UGI equivocal do SBFT to asses position and mobility
of cecum
• Volvulus: “corkscrew” distal duodenum/proximal jejunum
72. Omphalocele
• Herniation of abdominal viscera into base of
umbilical cord
• Failure of migration of lateral mesodermal body folds
• Increased incidence:
• advanced maternal age, in vitro fertilization,
maternal obesity, bicornuate uterus
• 50% with chromosomal abnormalities
79. Gastroschisis
• Congenital full thickness defect in paraumbilical
anterior abdominal wall - almost all right sided
• Usually small bowel herniated, occasionally
stomach, colon
• No sac → thickened bowel wall, poor peristalsis
• Not associated with chromosomal abnormalities
• Elevated 𝛂 fetoprotein
100. Meckel’s Diverticulum
• Omphalomesenteric duct remnant (vitelline duct)
• Most common malformation of GI tract
• Antimesenteric, true diverticulum, communicates with ileal
lumen
• #1 sx = painless rectal bleeding
• Obstruction, diverticulitis +/- perforation, intussusception,
stone formation, tumors (carcinoid)
• Lifetime risk sx = 5%
101. Meckel’s Diverticulum
• Rule of 2’s:
• 2% population, #♂ = 2 x ♀
• 2 feet from ileocecal valve, 2 inches long
• 2 types of ectopic mucosa (gastric, pancreatic)
• Sx usually by 2 yrs. of age
• Littre hernia = meckel’s constricted in inguinal hernia
122. Necrotizing Enterocolitis
•Usually premature, 10% term infants
•Etiologies: enteral feeds, mesenteric ischemia,
infection
•KUB - best diagnostic tool
•Pneumatosis is dx of NEC
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173. Hirschsprungs
•Short ( 80% in rectosigmoid) or long segment,
complete aganglionosis (3%)
•Absence of myenteric and submucosal ganglion
cells
•1/5000 births, # ♂ ≻ ♀
•↑ incd. in families, Down syndrome
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174. Hirschsprungs
•Change in colon caliber subtle
•Aganglionic segment narrower, lacks stool, and
is spastic
•corregated rectum sign 2° to dennervation
hypersensitivity
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176. Hirschsprung Disease
• SX: distention, bilious vomiting, no meconium 24 - 48 hrs.
• 90% dx in newborns (enema might be normal)
• Contrast enema:
• neonates - water soluble; older - barium
• denervated bowel is small, spastic
• normal bowel is dilated TRANSITION ZONE
• Recto-sigmoid index < 1
• short segment, long segment, total colonic aganglionosis
• intaluminal SB calcification with total colonic HD
185. Hirschsprung Disease
• DX: suction rectal biopsy, full thickness biopsy
• RX: surgical resection
• Untreated → enterocolitis, toxic megacolon,
sepsis, death
• DDX based on KUB:
• imperforate anus, colon atresia, meconium plug-
small left colon, meconium ileum, ileal atresia
186. Meconium Plug - Small Left
Colon Syndrome
• Transient functional obstruction of newborn colon
• Same sx as H.D.
• Etiology: immature ganglion cells?
• ↑ incd. with diabetic mothers and mag. sulfate
• NOT ASSOCIATED with CYSTIC FIBROSIS
• Temporary, excellent prognosis
187. Meconium Plug - Small Left
Colon Syndrome
• Water soluble contrast enema
• Rectum > sigmoid colon (R:S ratio > 1)
• left colon small to splenic flexure (transition
zone)
• +/- meconium plugs
211. Imperforate Anus
• clinical diagnosis, no anal opening
• Low: no GU tract communication
• High: rectouretheral fistula in ♂, rectovaginal or
rectovestibular fistula in ♀
• KUB: dilated loops of bowel +/- intraluminal calcification
(especially in ♂)
• VATER or VACTREL
• Currarino Triad: abnl sacrum + ARM + presacral mass
214. Button Battery Ingestion
• Children 6 years of age or less
• Lithium batteries 20 mm or larger
• Liquification necrosis due to NaOH generated by
current at the anode surface (narrower, negative
side)
• Esophageal perforation can occur within 6 hrs
• Perforation, strictures, TEF, esophageal-aortic fistula
252. Neonatal Pneumonia
•Acquires in utero - CMV
•Acquired during birth - Herpes, Group B Strep
•CXR: Can mimic HMD with confluent areas,
pleural effusion
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