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Clinical Surgery

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1. How would you treat a patient with a single neurofibroma?






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






3. What immunizations would you need to organize in the event of performing a splenectomy?


4. What is the surgical treatment of venous ulcers?






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






6. What will you observe on angiography of a chemodectoma?






7. What is the aetiology of varicocoeles?


8. What are the features of an inguinal hernia?






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






10. What are the specific late complications of amputations?






11. What is the classification used in the definition of severe exarcerbation of inflammatory bowel disease?






12. What is the risk of rupture for an aneurysm more than 5.5cm?






13. What is the differential diagnosis of intermittent claudication?






14. How do you classify the severity of thyroid eye disease?






15. How do you harvest a skin graft?






16. What is an incisional hernia?






17. What are the medical options for Raynauds?






18. How is anaplastic carcinoma treated?






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






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






21. What are the predisposing factors for Raynaud's phenomenon?






22. Describe the vascular supply of the transplanted kidney?


23. Why is total thyroidectomy preferred in the surgical treatment of Graves' disease?






24. What are the histological features of seborrhoeic keratosis?






25. What are the major causes of post-hepatic jaundice?






26. What are the treatment options of false aneurysms?






27. Radiological investigations for hepatomegaly






28. What are the specific complications of inguinal hernia repair?






29. What are the features of superficial spreading melanoma?






30. How would a patient with carotid aneurysm be investigated?






31. How would you treat a cystic hygroma?






32. Which patients should have their aneurysms repaired?






33. What is the surgical treatment of a popliteal aneurysm?






34. What are the specific early complications of amputations?


35. What are the indications for surgery in ulcerative colitis?


36. What is the non-surgical treatment of a patient with an epigastric hernia?






37. What specific investigations would you perform in thrombangiitis obliterans?


38. What is the surgical treatment of benign parotid tumours?






39. What should you mention when considering the management of a surgical patient?






40. How might the liver function tests help in distinguishing the types of jaundice?






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






42. What is the causes of the carotid artery aneurysms?






43. In which patients are abdominal aortic aneurysms most common?






44. Sclerotherapy To treat varocose veins






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






46. What is the differential diagnosis of an epigastric mass?






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






48. What is a branchial cyst?






49. Where does a liposarcoma arise from?






50. What is a skin flap?