What this deck covers
Congenital Lung and Airway Malformations in twelve illustrated clinical cases with worked explanations – case presentations built around clinical images, radiology, teaching illustrations and real laboratory data, with the reference range beside every value a case quotes. This visual, data-interpretation style of practice suits candidates preparing for MRCPCH AKP in particular, alongside the Saudi Prometric (SCFHS) exam, the Arab Board, DHA and OMSB. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong.
The twelve cases, in order
- Found before birth
- A normal film is not the end of it
- The scan that answers it
- Three pneumonias, one lobe
- Too dark to be normal
- Why the drain makes it worse
- Born breathless, belly empty
- The first ten minutes
- The feed that went wrong
- Where the tube stopped
- Operating on a well child
- What the lungs make back
What this deck teaches
- A lesion that fades on late scans is hidden, not gone. Every antenatally detected lesion gets postnatal CT, however normal the film.
- Recurrent pneumonia in the same lobe is anatomy. Look for a sequestration, and find its systemic artery before anyone operates.
- Markings in the dark zone separate CLE from pneumothorax. A drain into lobar emphysema creates the emergency it was meant to treat.
- In a diaphragmatic hernia, look below the diaphragm. The gasless, scaphoid abdomen is the other half of the film.
- Never bag a diaphragmatic hernia. Intubate, and put the stomach on free drainage – the two tubes.
- The operation is never the emergency. Hypoplasia and pulmonary hypertension decide the outcome; repair waits for stability.
Exam pearls from this deck
- A congenital lung lesion that fades on late scans is hidden, not healed – book the postnatal imaging before the family goes home.
- Antenatal lesion plus normal film still equals CT – the film has not answered the question the scan asked.
The twelve worked cases in this deck, with the images and the full explanation of every option, are part of Pediatric Case Review membership. See what is included, or start with the free Prometric question sets.
More from this system: all respiratory illustrated case decks · respiratory board questions for bank-style drilling · the free Pediatric Prometric question sets · pediatric reference values.
