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Clinical Surgery

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






2. What is the treatment of a chemodectoma?






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






4. What is the pathogenesis of thromboangiitis obliterans?






5. What is the purpose of limb elevation in the non-surgical treatment of lymphoedema?






6. What is the mean age for presentation of follicular carcinoma of the thyroid?






7. Conservative way to treat varicose veins?






8. What is neurofibromatosis?






9. How would you treat solar keratoses?






10. How do paraumbilical herniae occur?






11. How would you perform a hernia repair?






12. What conditions increase the risk of developing pressure sores?






13. What is a dermatofibroma?






14. What are patients with Sjogren's syndrome at risk of?


15. In the tourniquet test - What do collapsed veins below the tourniquet indicate?






16. What are the main types of predisposing factors for basal cell carcinoma?






17. What is the ABPI of patients with intermittent claudication?






18. What is the definition of an enterocutaneous fistula?






19. What is primary lymphoedema?






20. What are the features of infantile polycystic kidney disease?






21. What is the surgical treatment of benign parotid tumours?






22. What are the three main options available for the treatment of malignant melanoma?






23. What is the non-surgical treatment of a multinodular goitre?


24. What are the important elements in the description of an ulcer?






25. What is the pathogenesis of umbilical herniae?






26. What factors predispose to incisional hernia?






27. How should one treat a sebaceous cyst?






28. What are the signs in the mouth of acanthosis nigricans?






29. How is 'matching' of transplanted kidneys performed?






30. What are the arterial symptoms in thoracic outlet obstruction more commonly due to?


31. What are the signs of chronic venous insufficiency?






32. What is the anatomical classifcations of hydrocoeles?






33. What other non-surgical treatments are available for ischaemic ulcers?






34. What are the cause of cervical lymphadenopathy that you know of?






35. What are the non-surgical treatment options for lymphoedema?






36. What are the two types of complications of thyroidectomy?






37. What is a cyst?






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






39. What investigations are appropriate for deep venous disease?






40. What symptoms - a patient with an epigastric hernia might have complained of at presentation?






41. What is Adiposis dolorosa or Dercum's disease associated with?






42. What is the differential diagnosis of a ganglion?






43. What are the causes of a false aneurysm?






44. What investigations should one do in the management of a multinodular goitre?






45. How would you perform an ascitic tap?






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


47. What are the features of an inguinal hernia?






48. What should one point out when describing the features of a thyroid swelling?






49. What are the causes of simple colloid goitres?






50. What are the hepatobiliary complications of IBD?