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Clinical Surgery

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1. What are the indications for lung resection?






2. What conditions increase the risk of developing pressure sores?






3. What is the normal ABPI?






4. What do you know about solitary thyroid nodules?






5. What elements are ascertained in a thyroid history with regards to symptoms arising from the swelling?






6. What is the treatment of choice in differentiated thyroid cancer?






7. How are the causes of jaundice classified?






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


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


10. What are the two main classifications for thyroid enlargement?






11. How would you treat a dermatofibroma?






12. What is the one-year survival of amputations?






13. Why are 98% of varicocoeles left-side?






14. How would you perform an ascitic tap?






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






16. What is portal hypertension?






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






18. What are the variants of lipoma?






19. How is anaplastic carcinoma treated?






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






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






22. What are the vital points to be taken into consideration when examining the neck?






23. How would you treat a furuncle?






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






25. What are the seven signs in the eyes that one should look out for when assessing the thyroid status?






26. How would you treat solar keratoses?






27. Raynaud's disease






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






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


30. How would you treat an acquired dermoid cyst?






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






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






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






34. What are the contents of the spermatic cord?






35. How is hypersplenism brought about?


36. How would you prepare a patient who is going for surgery which will involve forming a stoma?






37. What is the surgical treatment of lymphoedema?






38. What are the appearances of the blood film after a splenectomy?






39. What are the possible surgical techniques in the surgical treatment of a femoral hernia?






40. How are epididymal cysts caused?






41. Sclerotherapy To treat varocose veins






42. What are the surgical principles in the treatment of a femoral hernia?






43. What are the complications of incisional hernia?






44. What is the treatment of Sjogren's syndrome?






45. Raynaud's syndrome


46. In patients with gynaecomastia - what would make you concerned the patient may have a breast cancer?






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






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






49. What are the specific complications of parotidectomy?






50. What is the aim of the tourniquet test?