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Clinical Surgery

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1. Sleeve resection






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






3. Do you know of any infectious agents associated with AAA?






4. What are the surgical principles in Mayo's operation?






5. How would you treat solar keratoses?






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






7. Simple cyst Investigations






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






9. What are the important elements in the description of an ulcer?






10. What is the treatment of a chemodectoma?






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






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






13. How would you treat a pyogenic granuloma?






14. What is the normal ABPI?






15. What are the indications for lung resection?






16. How may pleural effusions be classified?






17. How should one treat a sebaceous cyst?






18. What is primary lymphoedema?






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






20. How do you treat this condition?






21. What is jaundice?






22. What is the pathology of Sjogren's syndrome?






23. What are the taste branches of the facial nerve?






24. What is a useful mneumonic to remember what you have to present when examining a lump or swelling?






25. What are the types of lung resection?






26. What is the pathogenesis of thoracic outlet obstuction?






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






28. What other part of the body can be affected by hyperhidrosis?


29. What are the indications for forming a stoma?






30. What are the secretomotor branches of the facial nerve?






31. Which is the most widely accepted repair for umbilical herniae?


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






33. What are the causes of venous ulcers?






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






35. What are the features of ulcers in patients with sickle-cell disease?






36. Why do these neuropathic ulcers form?






37. What is the risk of rupture for an aneurysm more than 5.5cm?






38. What are the causes of portal hypertension?






39. What are the causes of gangrene?


40. What is a cyst?






41. What is the surgical treatment of a popliteal aneurysm?






42. What are the causes of hepatomegaly?


43. What are the stages of restorative proctocolectomy?






44. What are the motor branches of the facial nerve?






45. What other non-surgical treatments are available for ischaemic ulcers?






46. How would you treat a furuncle?






47. What is a cavernous haemangioma?






48. How is anaplastic carcinoma treated?






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






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