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Clinical Surgery

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






2. Conservative way to treat varicose veins?






3. What are the aetiologies arising outside the parotid gland in a unilateral swelling of the parotid gland?






4. What are the uncommon causes of ascites?






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






6. What is the non-surgical treatment of varicocoele?






7. What are the coordination abnormalities causes of dysphagia?






8. What does a hypertrophic scar look like?






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






10. What are the branches of the facial nerve?






11. What investigations should one do in the management of a multinodular goitre?






12. What investigations are appropriate for deep venous disease?






13. What should one point out when describing the features of a thyroid swelling?






14. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?

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






16. Where is the midinguinal point?






17. What do you know about the epidemiology of hypertrophic scars?






18. What is the aim of the tourniquet test?






19. What is the pathogenesis of a congenital dermoid cyst?






20. What does surgical excision involved in the surgical treatment of a pharyngeal pouch?






21. What are the benign diseases of the breast?






22. How would you treat a cystic hygroma?






23. What is the treatment of medullary carcinoma?






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






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






26. What is the differential diagnosis of hyperhidrosis?






27. What is the non-surgical treatment of a ganglion?

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28. What are the features of a direct inguinal hernia?






29. In What age group is papillary carcinoma more common in?






30. What are the contents of the spermatic cord?






31. What are the indications for forming a stoma?






32. How would you rehabilitate a patient following the placement of a stoma?






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






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

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35. What are the complications of atrial fibrillation?






36. What are the features of a femoral hernia?






37. What do you know about the epidemiology of keloid scars?






38. What investigations would you perform to help you in your diagnosis?






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






40. What are the causes of atrial fibrillation?






41. What are the causes of a mass in the left iliac fossa?






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






43. What is a keratoacanthoma?






44. What are the major causes of pre-hepatic jaundice?

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45. What do you know about thyroid adenomas?






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






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






48. What are the seven signs in the eyes that one should look out for when assessing the thyroid status?






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






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