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Clinical Surgery

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






2. What investigations would you perform in a suspected case of Inflammatory Bowel Disease?






3. What features of the lump would make you suspicious that it is breast cancer?






4. Which is the most widely accepted repair for umbilical herniae?

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






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






7. How would you diagnose a branchial cyst?






8. What are the different histological subtypes of a sebaceous cyst?






9. What is secondary lymphoedema?






10. What are the principles of management of enterocutaneous fistulae?






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






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






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






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






15. What are the main points to be elicited during a clerking of the surgical patient?






16. To whom is the surgical treatment of Graves' disease particularly useful?






17. What is a solar keratoses?






18. What is the pathology of Sjogren's syndrome?






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






20. What complication can neurofibromata give rise to?






21. It is know that the pulses are preserved in the diabetic - why is this?






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






23. How do patients with a pharyngeal pouch usually present?






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






25. What investigations would be helpful in confirming the diagnosis of coarctation of aorta?

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26. What are the constituents of the surgical sieve?






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






28. What is exopthalmos secondary to?






29. What are the functions of the spleen?






30. What clinical features would make you suspect that a parotid swelling is malignant in nature?






31. What are the causes of simple colloid goitres?






32. Obstructive Jaundice - With regards to radiological investigations






33. How would you treat this condition?

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34. What investigations would you perform to help you in your diagnosis?






35. How is Sjogren's clinically diagnosed?






36. Where are pressure sores most commonly found?






37. What are the causes of massive splenomegaly?






38. How does papillary carcinoma spread?






39. What are the motor branches of the facial nerve?






40. What are the complications with regards to the surgical treatment of a ganglion?






41. What are the surgical treatment principles of incisional hernia?






42. How would you perform a hernia repair?






43. What are the specific early complications of amputations?

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44. What are the taste branches of the facial nerve?






45. How would you treat a congenital dermoid cyst?






46. Which normal tissues are particularly affected by radiotherapy?






47. What is a keratoacanthoma?






48. Why are diabetics particularly prone to foot pathology?






49. What are the congenital predisposing factors for malignant melanomas?






50. What is the Courvoisier's law?