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Clinical Surgery

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1. How do patients with a pharyngeal pouch usually present?






2. What is the pathogenesis of a congenital dermoid cyst?






3. What are the surgical options for Raynauds?






4. What are the treatment options of false aneurysms?






5. What does a hypertrophic scar look like?






6. How does follicular carcinoma spread?






7. How should one treat a sebaceous cyst?






8. Which patients might be considered for carotid endarterectomy?






9. How should one conclude a thyroid examination after examining the patient from the back?






10. Which is the most widely accepted repair for umbilical herniae?


11. What is the classification used in the definition of severe exarcerbation of inflammatory bowel disease?






12. What is the Courvoisier's law?






13. What is the pathogenesis of an acquired dermoid cyst?






14. What are the surgical options for managing ulcerative colitis?






15. What are the features of nodular melanoma?






16. What are the main aetiologies in diffuse enlargement of the thryoid?






17. What are the features of a direct inguinal hernia?






18. What is the adequate treatment for minimal lesion(less than 1cm) in thyroid cancer?






19. What does four-layer compression bandaging comprise of?






20. What are the complications with regards to the surgical treatment of a ganglion?






21. What radiological investigations would be helpful in distinguishing the different causes?






22. What are the common causes of ascites?






23. What is the normal ABPI?






24. What are the non-surgical treatment options for hydrocoele?






25. What would you tell patients about their recovery from inguinal hernia repair?






26. What kinds of analgesia would be appropriate for this patient?






27. What do you know about the epidemiology of keloid scars?






28. What is the most common type of malignant melanoma?






29. What are the causes of gangrene?


30. How is a testicular tumour removed?






31. What is the arterial supply to the thyroid gland?






32. How should you organize information when talking about a disease?






33. What should be done prior to surgery in the surgical treatment of an incisional hernia?






34. What are the medical options for Raynauds?






35. Obstructive Jaundice - With regards to radiological investigations






36. What complication can neurofibromata give rise to?






37. What is the classic presentation of renal cell carcinoma?


38. What is the pathology of Sjogren's syndrome?






39. What are the features of a femoral hernia?






40. What are the secondary causes of Raynauds?






41. What investigations would be helpful in confirming the diagnosis of coarctation of aorta?


42. What are the non-surgical treatment options for coarctation of aorta?






43. How would you treat hidradenitis suppurativa?






44. Which patients should have their aneurysms repaired?






45. What is the differential diagnosis for a skin lesion?






46. With which conditions would an ascitic transudate be expected?






47. What needs to be taken into consideration when marking the stoma site?






48. How would you treat a congenital dermoid cyst?






49. What should one do in the general examination of the surgical patient?






50. What are the two main classifications for thyroid enlargement?