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Clinical Surgery

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1. How is a testicular tumour removed?






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






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






4. Describe the vascular supply of the transplanted kidney?

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5. What is the order of skin changes seen in Raynaud's?






6. What do you know about thyroid cysts?






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






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






9. What does a keloid scar look like?






10. What is the Courvoisier's law?






11. How can the extent of the obstruction be determined?






12. How does papillary carcinoma spread?






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






14. What are the 3 objectives that one should look out for in the inspection of varicose veins?






15. What is a keratoacanthoma?






16. What are the benign diseases of the breast?






17. What is the pathogenesis of Raynaud's phenomenon?






18. What are the coordination abnormalities causes of dysphagia?






19. What is the risk of solar keratoses progressing to invasive squamous cell carcinoma?






20. What is the mean age for presentation of follicular carcinoma of the thyroid?






21. How is hypersplenism brought about?

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






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

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24. What level does the serum bilirubin need to rise to before jaundice can be detected on clinical examination?






25. What is the medical treatment of Graves disease?






26. How should epididymal cysts be managed?






27. Assuming a patient has obstructive jaundice - how should this patient be investigated?






28. What are the questions that should be asked when taking a history for a lump or ulcer?






29. How would you prepare a patient who is going for surgery which will involve forming a stoma?






30. What are the general complications of a stoma?






31. What is the differential diagnosis of intermittent claudication?






32. What is the differential diagnosis of a ganglion?






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






34. What is the embryological origin of a thyroglossal cyst?






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






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






37. How do patients with a pharyngeal pouch usually present?






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






39. What are the signs in the mouth of Hereditary telangiectasia?






40. How would you treat a keratoacanthoma?






41. What is seborrhoeic keratosis?






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






43. How would you investigate a patient who was referred with a carotid bruit?






44. What is portal hypertension?






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






46. What is a fistula?






47. What are the surgical treatment principles of incisional hernia?






48. What are the malignant diseases of the breast?






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






50. How would you determine clinically the degree of shunt by a large fistula?