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Clinical Surgery

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1. What is a secondary hydrocoele?






2. What is the aetiology of varicocoeles?


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






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






5. Large hernia






6. What are the 'transudate' causes of a pleural effusion?






7. How would you treat hidradenitis suppurativa?






8. What are the specific complications of inguinal hernia repair?






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






10. What is the absolute pressure that is used in some definitions of critical ischemia?






11. What does four-layer compression bandaging comprise of?






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






13. What is jaundice?






14. How do you treat this condition?






15. Raynaud's disease






16. What are the two main categories of causes of dysphagia?






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






18. What are the rare causes of digital clubbing?


19. What is the surgical treatment of a multinodular goitre?






20. What is the pathogenesis of peripheral neuropathy?






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






22. What are the causes of unilateral ptosis?


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






24. What are the complications with regards to the surgical treatment of a ganglion?






25. What is the origin of lymphangiomas?






26. What are the main types of predisposing factors for basal cell carcinoma?






27. What are the elements of the reconstruction ladder?






28. What are the signs of chronic venous insufficiency?






29. How do you treat a thyroglossal cyst?


30. What are the mechanical obstruction causes of dysphagia?


31. What is the prophylactic treatment of pressure sores?






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


33. How would you treat a papilloma?






34. What do patients with rest pain typically get more severe pain at night?






35. What are the variants of lipoma?






36. What is exopthalmos secondary to?






37. How should you organize information when talking about a disease?






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






39. What is secondary lymphoedema?






40. What are the uncommon causes of ascites?






41. Radiological investigations for hepatomegaly






42. What tissues do skin graft not take on?






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






44. What do you know about thyroid malignancy?






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






46. How would you investigate a patient with hepatomegaly?






47. What are port-wine stains?






48. What is the normal ABPI?






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






50. What is the differential diagnosis of intermittent claudication?