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Clinical Surgery

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1. What do you know about thyroid adenomas?






2. Why do these neuropathic ulcers form?






3. What are the features of adult polycystic kidney disease?






4. How would you treat a furuncle?






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






6. What is an incisional hernia?






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






8. What are the risk factors for arterial disease






9. What is the prophylactic treatment of pressure sores?






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






11. What is the differential diagnosis of a lump in the groin?






12. How would you demonstrate a patient's ankle brachial pressure index?






13. What are the features of ulcers in pyoderma gangrenosum?






14. How do you classify skin flaps?






15. What is the defective gene in type 1 NF?






16. What are the specific complications of a stoma?






17. What are the three basic questions that need to be asked in a peripheral arterial system history?






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






19. What questions should one ask to someone with dysphagia?






20. What are the signs of chronic venous insufficiency?






21. What are patients with Sjogren's syndrome at risk of?


22. How would you treat solar keratoses?






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






24. What is the definition of an enterocutaneous fistula?






25. What are the main features of splenomegaly in the clinical examination?






26. What is a skin flap?






27. What are the specific late complications of amputations?






28. Why are diabetics particularly prone to foot pathology?






29. Simple cyst Investigations






30. What other non-surgical treatments are available for ischaemic ulcers?






31. What are the causes of venous ulcers?






32. What do you know about simple colloid goitres?






33. What are the functions of the spleen?






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






35. What is the pathogenesis of peripheral neuropathy?






36. How do you harvest a skin graft?






37. What is Sjogren's syndrome?






38. How would you treat an acquired dermoid cyst?






39. How do you stage malignant melanomas?


40. What are the specific early complications of amputations?


41. What is the significance of the ankle brachial pressure index?






42. What is the differential diagnosis for a skin lesion?






43. What is the surgical treatment of Graves disease?






44. What does a hypertrophic scar look like?






45. How is hypersplenism brought about?


46. What are the specific complications of a Cimino-Brescia fistula?






47. How should one examine a lump or swelling?






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






49. What is the surgical treatment of lymphoedema?






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