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Clinical Surgery

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

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2. What are the characteristics that suggest malignancy in skin lesions?






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






4. How would you prepare a patient prior to breast surgery?






5. What are the common causes of ascites?






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






7. What factors predispose to incisional hernia?






8. What is a useful mneumonic to remember what you have to present when examining a lump or swelling?






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






10. What is the order of skin changes seen in Raynaud's?






11. Where are pressure sores most commonly found?






12. What are the signs of chronic venous insufficiency?






13. How might a patient with a popliteal aneurysms present?






14. What is a dermoid cyst?






15. How does papillary carcinoma spread?






16. What is a chemodectoma?






17. What is the operative mortality of amputations?






18. What are the surgical problems associated with AF?






19. What are the late side-effects of radiotherapy?






20. What do you know about Kaposi's Sarcoma?






21. What are the features of ulcers in pyoderma gangrenosum?






22. What are the features of spider naevi?






23. How should you organize information when talking about a disease?






24. What does a keloid scar look like?






25. What is the differential diagnosis in basal cell carcinoma?






26. What are the hepatobiliary complications of IBD?






27. What is the shorter version of the surgical sieve?






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






29. Where is the midinguinal point?






30. What are the complications of atrial fibrillation?






31. What is the aim of cardiopulmonary bypass?






32. How would you investigate a patient with hepatomegaly?






33. What is a sinus?






34. What is the Courvoisier's law?






35. How should one examine a lump or swelling?






36. What are the indications of mastectomy?






37. What should one do in the general examination of the surgical patient?






38. Pneumonectomy






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






40. What are the features of nodular melanoma?






41. What are the features of an indirect inguinal hernia?






42. What are the specific early complications of amputations?

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43. What are the 'transudate' causes of a pleural effusion?






44. What is a hydrocoele?






45. What does four-layer compression bandaging comprise of?






46. What are the 3 objectives that one should look out for in the inspection of varicose veins?






47. With which conditions would an ascitic transudate be expected?






48. What is the surgical treatment of Graves disease?






49. How is a Cimino-Brescia arteriovenous fistula fashioned?






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

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