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Clinical Surgery

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1. What is a skin flap?






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






3. How does follicular carcinoma spread?






4. What is the pathogenesis of peripheral neuropathy?






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






6. How might a patient with a popliteal aneurysms present?






7. What is the surgical treatment of a patient with an epigastric hernia?






8. What is the ABPI of patients with intermittent claudication?






9. What are the aetiologies arising inside the parotid gland in a unilateral swelling of the parotid gland?

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10. What is the one-year survival of amputations?






11. What are the hepatobiliary complications of IBD?






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






13. What are the functions of the spleen?






14. What investigations would be helpful in confirming the diagnosis of coarctation of aorta?

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15. Obstructive Jaundice - With regards to radiological investigations






16. What is the prophylactic treatment of pressure sores?






17. What is the medical treatment of Graves disease?






18. What are the specific complications of varicose veins surgery?






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






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






21. What is the aetiology of diabetic foot ulcers?






22. What are the causes of a false aneurysm?






23. What is the aim of cardiopulmonary bypass?






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






25. Conservative way to treat varicose veins?






26. How is 'matching' of transplanted kidneys performed?






27. What is a furuncle?






28. What is hidradenitis suppurativa?






29. What radiological features would make you suspicious of an occult renal cell carcinoma?






30. What are the features of infantile polycystic kidney disease?






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






32. Which patients should have their aneurysms repaired?






33. What are the causes of acquired umbilical herniae in adults?






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






35. How do you classify skin flaps?






36. What is a neurofibroma?






37. Why are 98% of varicocoeles left-side?






38. What are the indications for surgery in ulcerative colitis?

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






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






41. What would you tell to a lady with varicose veins about the proposed surgery?






42. What is the aim of the tourniquet test?






43. What are the complications of a cystic hygroma?






44. What symptoms - a patient with an epigastric hernia might have complained of at presentation?






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






46. What do you know about solitary thyroid nodules?






47. What is the differential diagnosis of a midline neck swelling?






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






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






50. What is the non-surgical treatment of varicocoele?