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Clinical Surgery

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1. In What age group does anaplastic carcinoma usually present in?






2. What are the risk of radioiodine in the treatment of Graves disease?






3. What do you know about the pathophysiology of pressure necrosis?






4. What are the non-surgical options for Raynauds






5. What is seborrhoeic keratosis?






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






7. What is the aetiology of diabetic foot ulcers?






8. What are the non-surgical treatment options for an incisional hernia?






9. What are the causes of portal hypertension?






10. What are the specific early complications of amputations?

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11. How would you treat a papilloma?






12. What are the features of acral lentiginous melanoma?






13. What is the differential diagnosis of a ganglion?






14. How would you investigate a patient with hepatomegaly?






15. What investigations would you perform in your diagnosis of a chemodectoma?






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






17. What about umbilical herniae in children?






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






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






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






21. What do patients with rest pain typically get more severe pain at night?






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






23. What is the classification of testicular malignancies?






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






25. How do you classify skin flaps?






26. Which patients might be considered for carotid endarterectomy?






27. What are the features of a femoral hernia?






28. What does surgical excision involved in the surgical treatment of a pharyngeal pouch?






29. What are the three objectives to be taken note of in the inspection part of the arterial examination?






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

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31. What are the other types of arteriovenous fistula?






32. What are the seven 'D's of nipple signs?






33. How would you perform an ascitic tap?






34. When are spider naevi considered to be pathological?






35. What are the cardiac causes of digital clubbing?






36. Simple cysts are found in 33% of patients by the age of 60. How should they be managed?






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






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






39. How would you treat a pharyngeal pouch?






40. How are epididymal cysts caused?






41. What do you know about thyroid malignancy?






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

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






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






45. Which are the most benign parotid tumours?

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46. What is a cystic hygroma?






47. What are the causes of a diffusely enlarged thyroid gland?

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






49. What points should be elicited when taking a pain history in a surgical patient?






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