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Clinical Surgery

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1. What is a sinus?






2. What do you know about thyroid malignancy?






3. What are the neurological symptoms in thoracic outlet obstruction more commonly due to?


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






5. What is the non-surgical treatment of a multinodular goitre?


6. What is the differential diagnosis of intermittent claudication?






7. What are the causes of postoperative jaundice?






8. How do you treat a thyroglossal cyst?


9. What are the other types of arteriovenous fistula?






10. What is the Courvoisier's law?






11. What are the main features of type 2 NF?






12. What radiological investigations would be helpful in distinguishing the different causes?






13. Radiological investigations for hepatomegaly






14. What is exopthalmos secondary to?






15. What are the non-surgical treatment options for an incisional hernia?






16. What are the coordination abnormalities causes of dysphagia?






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






18. What are the branches of the facial nerve?






19. Obstructive Jaundice - With regards to radiological investigations






20. How is anaplastic carcinoma treated?






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






22. What is the surgical treatment of a patient with an epigastric hernia?






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






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






25. What are the causes of gangrene?


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






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






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






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






30. What is the pathogenesis of umbilical herniae?






31. What are the mechanical obstruction causes of dysphagia?


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






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






34. What are the questions that should be asked when taking a history for a lump or ulcer?






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






36. How would you treat hidradenitis suppurativa?






37. What are the rare causes of digital clubbing?


38. What are the acquired predisposing factors for malignant melanomas?






39. What are the main aetiologies in diffuse enlargement of the thryoid?






40. What are the treatment options of false aneurysms?






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






42. How would you treat a dermatofibroma?






43. What is the difference in the clinical course of hypertrophic and keloid scars?






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






45. How do testicular tumours usually present?






46. How would you manage a multinodular goitre?






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






48. What are the intratemporal causes of facial nerve palsy?


49. What is the definition of an enterocutaneous fistula?






50. What are the non-surgical options for Raynauds