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Clinical Surgery

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1. What are the signs in the mouth of Peutz-Jegher disease?






2. What are port-wine stains?






3. What is a chemodectoma?






4. What are the specific early complications of amputations?

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






6. What is the shorter version of the surgical sieve?






7. What should you keep in mind when assessing surgical scars?






8. What are the causes of superior vena cava obstruction?






9. What is venous gangrene?






10. What is the surgical treatment of pressure sores?






11. What are the constituents of the surgical sieve?






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






13. What should be done prior to surgery in the surgical treatment of an incisional hernia?






14. What is the aetiology of diabetic foot ulcers?






15. How would you demonstrate to an examiner that a mass in the right upper quadrant is indeed an enlarged liver(hepatomegaly)?






16. How should one examine a lump or swelling?






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






18. What are the cardiac causes of digital clubbing?






19. How would a patient with carotid aneurysm be investigated?






20. What conditions increase the risk of developing pressure sores?






21. What is exopthalmos secondary to?






22. How would you perform an ascitic tap?






23. What is the purpose of limb elevation in the non-surgical treatment of lymphoedema?






24. What is a ganglion?






25. What are the signs in the mouth of acanthosis nigricans?






26. What complication can neurofibromata give rise to?






27. What do you know about the pathophysiology of varicose veins?






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






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






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






31. What are the risk of radioiodine in the treatment of Graves disease?






32. What is the prophylactic treatment of pressure sores?






33. How would you treat a cystic hygroma?






34. What other conditions cause odynophagia?






35. What are the indications for lung resection?






36. Raynaud's syndrome

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37. What is the non-surgical treatment of venous ulcers?






38. What would you warn the patient of in consenting them for an endarterectomy?






39. Why do these neuropathic ulcers form?






40. What specific investigations would you perform in thrombangiitis obliterans?

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41. What is the differential diagnosis of swollen legs?






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






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






44. What does minimally invasive surgery involve in the surgical treatment of a pharyngeal pouch?

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45. How does follicular carcinoma spread?






46. What is the mainstay of treatment in ascites?






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






48. When should the drains be removed post-surgery?






49. What are the indications for surgery in Crohn's disease?






50. How do paraumbilical herniae occur?