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Clinical Surgery

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1. What are the venous symptoms in thoracic outlet obstruction more commonly due to?






2. What is the surgical treatment of varicocoele?






3. How would you demonstrate a patient's ankle brachial pressure index?






4. What are the two main types of aetiologies in the differential diagnosis of a unilateral swelling of the parotid gland?






5. What immunizations would you need to organize in the event of performing a splenectomy?

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6. What is a neurofibroma?






7. What is the surgical treatment of venous ulcers?






8. What are the neurological symptoms in thoracic outlet obstruction more commonly due to?

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






10. What surgical treatments are available for ptosis?






11. What do you know about the epidemiology of hypertrophic scars?






12. What will you observe on angiography of a chemodectoma?






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






14. What systems are tackled when taking into consideration a thyroid history?






15. What are the constituents of the surgical sieve?






16. Lobectomy






17. What is Frey's syndrome?






18. What other investigations can be done for Sjogren's syndrome?

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19. How do you stage malignant melanomas?

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20. What are the causes of a mass in the left iliac fossa?






21. What is a dermatofibroma?






22. What are the causes of neuropathic ulcers?






23. What are the rare causes of digital clubbing?

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24. Where is the midinguinal point?






25. How do you harvest a skin graft?






26. What are the signs of chronic venous insufficiency?






27. What are the indications for surgery in Crohn's disease?






28. What investigations may help confirm the diagnosis of thoracic outlet obstruction?






29. What is the non-surgical treatment of venous ulcers?






30. How would you perform a hernia repair?






31. What are the three basic questions that need to be asked in a peripheral arterial system history?






32. What is the surgical treatment of lymphoedema?






33. What are the intracranial causes of facial nerve palsy?






34. What are the specific complications of parotidectomy?






35. What are the extratemporal causes of facial nerve palsy?






36. What is jaundice?






37. What are the signs in the mouth of Peutz-Jegher disease?






38. What is the pathogenesis of umbilical herniae?






39. What is the difference in the clinical course of hypertrophic and keloid scars?






40. What types of wounds are prone to hypertrophic and keloid scar formation?






41. What is a carbuncle?






42. What are the features of ulcers in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?






43. What is a cavernous haemangioma?






44. What are the complications of a pharyngeal pouch?






45. What is the non-surgical treatment of varicocoele?






46. What are the causes of bilateral ptosis?






47. What are the general complications of thyroidectomy?






48. What questions should one ask to someone with dysphagia?






49. How do paraumbilical herniae occur?






50. What should you keep in mind when assessing surgical scars?