Functional abdominal pain is mentioned in the higher syllabus for abdominal pain, and not the core syllabus. It is common in children, and s...

Children often swallow things. The management pretty much depends on what they have swallowed, and whether they have symptoms or not. If the...

Constipation is common. DFTB has written some excellent pieces of work on this - I've written myself more of a summary using their resou...

Strangulated Hernias could rarely include an ovary - 4.9 cases/  100,000 Ovarian torsion occurs in young women (63% in 7-10yr old), and pos...

Epidemiology Often present within 1st year of life. Pathophysiology Indirect - most hernias are indirect and extend through the i...

Penile problems in children Hypospadius Correct before 2 years of age. Do NOT circumcise as may need reconstructive surgery Phimosis ...

Idiopathic Scrotal Oedema Pathophysiology "Cellulitis of the scrotum" - Unknown cause - Hypothesized that it represents a ...

Anatomy The spermatic cord starts at the deep inguinal ring, then enters the scrotum at the superficial inguinal ring. The testicular a...

Up to 7% of girls and 2% of boys will have a symptomatic, culture confirmed urinary tract infection (UTI) by the age of six. The prevalenc...

Mesenteric adenitis is a difficult diagnosis to make, but it is always a diagnosis of exclusion. There isn't much FOAMEd that I can find...

Intussusception is a diagnosis I always worry about missing. I've seen it a few times - thankfully when I've been in a centre with p...

Appendicitis presents similarly in children and in adults, so it is difficult to separate the two age groups out entirely...so I'm not g...

  As always, the syllabus is fairly vague. There are three groups of causes of abdominal pain in children (as I see it). 1. More likely...