“NICOLAE TESTEMITANU” STATE MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY
Department of Pediatric Surgey, Orthopedics and Anesthesiology
PLAN OF SUBJECTS
of pediatric surgery course for Vth university year
students of the general medicine faculty
1. Organization of the pediatric surgical assistance. Pediatric surgery peculiarities. Examination methods in
pediatric surgery. Gastrointestinal tract malformations. Esophageal atresia. Traheo-esophageal
fistulae. Gastric outlet hypertrophic stenosis. Definition. Embryology. Classification. Clinical
symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Complications.
2. Congenital bowel obstruction. Bowel malformations. Definition. Embryology. Classification. Clinical
symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Complications. Anorectal malformations.
Hirschsprung disease. Acquired megacolon. Definition. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification.
Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment.
3. Appendicitis in children. Definition. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification. Clinical symptoms.
Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Peculiarities in newborns and infants. Peritonitis in
children. Definition. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis.
Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Peculiarities in premature, newborn and infant.
4. Principles of pediatric orthopedy. Malformations of the locomotor apparatus. Torticollis.
Congenital clubfoot. Congenital hip dislocation. Amniotic disease. Arthrogryposis. Embryology.
Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Complications. Trauma
in children. Fractures in children. Fractures peculiarities in children. Diagnostic and treatment
peculiarities. Obstetrical trauma. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification. Clinical signs. Diagnosis.
Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Thoracoabdominal injuries in children. Urinary tract injuries in
children. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification. Clinical signs. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis.
Treatment.
5. Urinary system malformations. Kidney, ureteral, bladder, uretral abnormalities. Embryology.
Classification. Clinical signs. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment.
6. Surgical infection in children. Purulent diseases of the soft tissues in children. Extensive phlegmon
of newborn. Pseudofurunculosis. Furunculosis. Mastitis. Omphalitis. Definition. Etiology and
pathogenesis. Classification.
Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment.
Hematogenous osteomyelitis in children. Definition. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification.
Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Complications.
7. Acute purulent necrotizing pneumonia in children. Definition. Etiology and pathogenesis.
Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Bronchopulmonary
malformations. Embryology. Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis.
Treatment.
8. Acquired bowel obstructions in children. Intussusception. Adhesive bowel obstruction. Volvulus.
Definition. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential
diagnosis. Treatment. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage in children. Definition. Etiology and pathogenesis.
Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Portal hypertension in
children. Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential
diagnosis. Treatment.
9. Liver and biliary tracts malformations. Biliary tracts atresia. Mechanical jaundices in newborns.
Congenital cystic dilatation of choledochus. Embryology. Classification. Clinical symptoms.
Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment. Pediatric oncology. Peculiarities of the pediatric
oncology. Tumors particularities in children. Classification. Diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Soft
tissues’ tumors. Mediastinal tumors. Retroperitoneal tumors. Abdominal tumors. Bone tumors.
10. Congenital pathology of the anterior abdominal wall. Embryonic hernia. Laparoschisis.
Omphaloenteric duct pathology. Urachus malformations. Meckele diverticulum. Embryology.
Etiology and pathogenesis. Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis.
Treatment. Hernias in children. Acute scrotum syndrome. Pathology of diaphragm. Diaphragmatic
hernias and eventration. Hiatal hernia. Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. Etiology and pathogenesis.
Classification. Clinical symptoms. Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis. Treatment.
Chief of the Department of Pediatric Surgery,
Orthopedics and Anesthesiology,
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova,
PhD, university professor, Honor person
Eva Gudumac