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Clinical Surgery

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1. What are the surgical principles in Mayo's operation?






2. What is a fistula?






3. What is secondary lymphoedema?






4. What are the functions of the spleen?






5. What is a pharyngeal pouch?


6. What are the causes of massive splenomegaly?






7. What do you know about the pathology of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the skin?






8. What are the contents of the spermatic cord?






9. What are the specific and early complications of thyroidectomy?






10. What is the risk of rupture for an aneurysm more than 5.5cm?






11. In the tourniquet test - What do rapid filling of the collapsed veins below the tourniquet indicate?






12. What are the signs in the mouth of Lichen Planus?






13. How do carcinomas of the oesophagus present?






14. What do you know about thyroid cysts?






15. What are the surgical principles in the treatment of a femoral hernia?






16. What are the types of lung resection?






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






18. What are the two main categories of causes of dysphagia?






19. What are the histological appearances of solar keratoses?






20. What are the different types of mastectomy that can be performed?






21. How would you perform an ascitic tap?






22. What is the pathogenesis of thromboangiitis obliterans?






23. How would you treat an acquired dermoid cyst?






24. How would a patient with carotid aneurysm be investigated?






25. What do you know about thyroid adenomas?






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






27. What does minimally invasive surgery involve in the surgical treatment of a pharyngeal pouch?


28. What are the complications of atrial fibrillation?






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






30. Which are the gastrointestinal causes of clubbing?






31. What are the indications of median sternotomy?






32. What is a skin graft?


33. What are the causes of a mass in the right iliac fossa?






34. What is the pathogenesis of Raynaud's phenomenon?






35. Lipomas do not undergo...






36. What are the two main systems which need to be examining thyroid status in a surgical patient?






37. What are the congenital predisposing factors for basal cell carcinoma?


38. Raynaud's syndrome


39. What are the signs in the mouth of Hereditary telangiectasia?






40. What are the main points that doctors are looking for during the Surgical OSCEs?






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






42. What are the aetiologies arising outside the parotid gland in a unilateral swelling of the parotid gland?






43. How would you treat a congenital dermoid cyst?






44. What is a neurofibroma?






45. What are the indications for lung resection?






46. How would you treat a furuncle?






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






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






49. What is lid lag secondary to ?






50. What is a secondary hydrocoele?