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Clinical Surgery

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1. What important questions should you ask in a patient with jaundice?






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






3. What are the causes of neuropathic ulcers?






4. What is a carbuncle?






5. What is Adiposis dolorosa or Dercum's disease associated with?






6. What side effect would you warn this patient about if considering cervical sympathectomy?

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

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8. What is the commonest cause of unilateral ankle oedema?






9. What do you know about thyroid adenomas?






10. What are the causes of bilateral ptosis?






11. What is lid lag secondary to ?






12. What is the main statistic with regards to salivary gland tumours?






13. What are the coordination abnormalities causes of dysphagia?






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






15. What are the specific early complications of amputations?

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16. How are the causes of jaundice classified?






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






18. What is the pathogenesis of peripheral neuropathy?






19. What is a neurofibroma?






20. What are the risk factors for arterial disease






21. Why is surgical treatment advised in the treatment of varicocoele?






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






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






24. What are the branches of the facial nerve?






25. What are the two types of ptosis?






26. How do you treat a thyroglossal cyst?

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27. What is the treatment of a lipoma?

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28. What do you know about the epidemiology of thyroglossal cysts?






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






30. What are the features of Campbell de Morgan spots?






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






32. What are the specific complications of parotidectomy?






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






34. What are the features of lentigo maligna melanoma?






35. How do you harvest a skin graft?






36. What are the causes of hepatomegaly?

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37. What is the most common type of malignant melanoma?






38. Which normal tissues are particularly affected by radiotherapy?






39. What is the prophylactic treatment of pressure sores?






40. What are single lumps in the breast more likely to be ?






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






42. What are the cause of cervical lymphadenopathy that you know of?






43. What are the causes of atrial fibrillation?






44. What is a chemodectoma?






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






46. What is a dermoid cyst?






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






48. How would you treat a pharyngeal pouch?






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






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