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Clinical Surgery

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1. Which patients should have their aneurysms repaired?






2. Simple cyst Treatment






3. What are the treatment options available for Basal Cell Carcinoma?






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






5. What are the causes of gynaecomastia?






6. What is the pathogenesis of umbilical herniae?






7. What are the treatment options available for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the skin?


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






9. How might you be aware the transplant rejection is occurring?






10. What are the non-surgical treatment options for hydrocoele?






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






12. What are the different types of mastectomy that can be performed?






13. How would you treat a pyogenic granuloma?






14. What are the causes of neuropathic ulcers?






15. Which antibodies are present in Sjogren's syndrome?






16. Raynaud's disease






17. What are the non-surgical options for Raynauds






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






19. What is the definition of an enterocutaneous fistula?






20. What are the features of ulcers in patients with arteriovenous fistulae?






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






22. What are the causes of a solitary thyroid nodule?






23. Lobectomy






24. How would you treat pyoderma gangrenosum?






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






26. What do you know about thyroid cysts?






27. What is the differential diagnosis of a dermatofibroma?






28. What do you know about the pathophysiology of pressure necrosis?






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






30. How should one treat a sebaceous cyst?






31. What are the surgical options for managing ulcerative colitis?






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






33. What are the benign diseases of the breast?






34. What are the features of spider naevi?






35. What syndromes are associated with varicose veins?






36. What are the majore causes of hepatic jaundice?






37. How would you treat a keratoacanthoma?






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


39. From which cells does Medullary carcinoma arise from?






40. What is the treatment of a lipoma?


41. What is the classification of liposarcoma?






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






43. What types of wounds are prone to hypertrophic and keloid scar formation?






44. What is the prophylactic treatment of pressure sores?






45. What is the surgical treatment of venous ulcers?






46. What are the anatomical levels that leg amputations are usually found at?






47. What are the two types of ptosis?






48. What are the indications for lung resection?






49. How are the side-effects of radiotherapy minimized?






50. What will the Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology show you in the investigation of Cervical Lymphadenopathy?