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Clinical Surgery

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1. What are the causes of postoperative jaundice?






2. What is the classification of testicular malignancies?






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






4. How should one treat a sebaceous cyst?






5. When are spider naevi considered to be pathological?






6. What are the majore causes of hepatic jaundice?






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






8. Where is the midinguinal point?






9. What are the benign diseases of the breast?






10. How would you investigate and treat a solitary thyroid nodule?






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






12. What is the definition of an enterocutaneous fistula?






13. It is know that the pulses are preserved in the diabetic - why is this?






14. What is secondary lymphoedema?






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






16. In the tourniquet test - What do rapid filling of the collapsed veins below the tourniquet indicate?






17. What would you tell to a lady with varicose veins about the proposed surgery?






18. What is the pathogenesis of an acquired dermoid cyst?






19. What are the coordination abnormalities causes of dysphagia?






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






21. How would you treat a congenital dermoid cyst?






22. What is the risk of solar keratoses progressing to invasive squamous cell carcinoma?






23. What are the features of superficial spreading melanoma?






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






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






26. When considering the treatment of a disease in a surgical patients - What are the important modalities of treatment which should be considered?






27. How would you treat a furuncle?






28. What radiological features would make you suspicious of an occult renal cell carcinoma?






29. From which cells does Medullary carcinoma arise from?






30. How do you treat these scars?






31. How would you treat an acquired dermoid cyst?






32. What is the non-surgical treatment of pressure sores?






33. How would you determine clinically the degree of shunt by a large fistula?






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






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






36. What is the classic presentation of renal cell carcinoma?


37. How do carcinomas of the oesophagus present?






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






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






40. What are the causes of neuropathic ulcers?






41. What are the characteristics that suggest malignancy in skin lesions?






42. What is a furuncle?






43. What are the three main options available for the treatment of malignant melanoma?






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






45. How would you investigate a patient who was referred with a carotid bruit?






46. What is the differential diagnosis of swollen legs?






47. What is the aetiology of enterocutaneous fistulae?


48. What are port-wine stains?






49. What is the surgical treatment of lymphoedema?






50. How do true umbilical herniae occur?