CASE: During your internship duty you received a call from Pediatric ward relaying an extraction of a 1-year-old baby boy for work up. As a Med Lab Science Intern, you were asked by your MT Supervisor to accompany her to the Pediatric ward to facilitate the procedure. Upon arrival to Pediatric ward, you saw the Pediatric Resident on duty and asked about the case. You are presented a case of a 1-year-old baby boy who was brought by her mother due to scrotal deformity. The mother noticed that her baby boy’s scrotum was unequal in size since birth noting that she was not able to palpate the other testes. There was no consult done believing that it could probably be normal since the child was new born prematurely. Months have passed the mother was getting anxious still with no consult until after the child celebrated his 1st year birthday. The mother now sought consult to an Out Patient Department and was seen by a Pediatrician and was advised Elective admission for work up. Diagnosis: Cryptorchidism 1. What specific parts of the urinary system is affected in this case? 2. What are the normal functions of the body system involved in this case? 3. Discuss the specific structure involved as to: a. The structure/ anatomy b. The function/ physiology
CASE:
During your internship duty you received a call from Pediatric ward relaying an extraction of a 1-year-old baby boy for work up. As a Med Lab Science Intern, you were asked by your MT Supervisor to accompany her to the Pediatric ward to facilitate the procedure. Upon arrival to Pediatric ward, you saw the Pediatric Resident on duty and asked about the case.
You are presented a case of a 1-year-old baby boy who was brought by her mother due to scrotal deformity. The mother noticed that her baby boy’s scrotum was unequal in size since birth noting that she was not able to palpate the other testes. There was no consult done believing that it could probably be normal since the child was new born prematurely.
Months have passed the mother was getting anxious still with no consult until after the child celebrated his 1st year birthday. The mother now sought consult to an Out Patient Department and was seen by a Pediatrician and was advised Elective admission for work up.
Diagnosis: Cryptorchidism
1. What specific parts of the urinary system is affected in this case?
2. What are the normal functions of the body system involved in this case?
3. Discuss the specific structure involved as to:
a. The structure/ anatomy
b. The function/ physiology
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