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Clinical Surgery

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






2. What is the differential diagnosis of a testicular tumour?






3. What are the two types of complications of amputations?






4. What is a ganglion?






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






6. What are the two types of ptosis?






7. Which investigations would you use in a patient whom you thought might be suffering from a dysmotility problem?






8. What are the indications for lung resection?






9. What are the surgical options in Crohns disease?






10. What are the benign diseases of the breast?






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






12. How would you perform a hernia repair?






13. Conservative way to treat varicose veins?






14. What are the causes of venous ulcers?






15. How would you treat a cystic hygroma?






16. What is a papilloma?






17. What is the significance of the ankle brachial pressure index?






18. Where are pressure sores most commonly found?






19. How should one examine a lump or swelling?






20. What radiological features would make you suspicious of an occult renal cell carcinoma?






21. What are multiple -painful lipomas known as?


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






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






24. What is a cyst?






25. What is a skin graft?


26. What are the causes of atrial fibrillation?






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






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


29. What is the non-surgical treatment of pressure sores?






30. Where does a liposarcoma arise from?






31. How would you treat a pharyngeal pouch?






32. What is the surgical treatment of coarctation of aorta?






33. What are the complications of a cystic hygroma?






34. What are the specific late complications of amputations?






35. What is a furuncle?






36. What are the treatment options of false aneurysms?






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






38. What are the signs in the mouth of Addison's disease?






39. What are the causes of gangrene?


40. What is the defective gene in type 1 NF?






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






42. What is the differential diagnosis of swollen legs?






43. What are the causes of postoperative jaundice?






44. What are the surgical treatment options for hydrocoele?


45. How would you rehabilitate a patient following the placement of a stoma?






46. What are the complications of incisional hernia?






47. How would you demonstrate to an examiner that a mass in the right upper quadrant is indeed an enlarged liver(hepatomegaly)?






48. Why do these neuropathic ulcers form?






49. Why are diabetics particularly prone to foot pathology?






50. What are the 'exudate' causes of a pleural effusion?