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Clinical Surgery

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1. Why are diabetics particularly prone to foot pathology?






2. What should one do in the general examination of the surgical patient?






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






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






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






6. What investigations are appropriate for deep venous disease?






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






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






9. What do you know about the epidemiology of hypertrophic scars?






10. What is a fistula?






11. How would you perform a hernia repair?






12. How would you treat this condition?

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13. What investigations would you perform to help you in your diagnosis?






14. What are the causes of massive splenomegaly?






15. What systems are tackled when taking into consideration a thyroid history?






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






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






18. How might the liver function tests help in distinguishing the types of jaundice?






19. What is the operative mortality of amputations?






20. How do you classify skin flaps?






21. How is Sjogren's clinically diagnosed?






22. What is a dermoid cyst?






23. Why is surgical treatment advised in the treatment of varicocoele?






24. What are the indications for surgery in goitre?






25. What are the arterial symptoms in thoracic outlet obstruction more commonly due to?

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26. Under what circumstances would patients (with popliteal aneurysms) they be treated?






27. What is a cyst?






28. Which are the gastrointestinal causes of clubbing?






29. What is the classic presentation of renal cell carcinoma?

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30. How does radiotherapy work?






31. What are the indications for lung resection?






32. What are the constituents of the surgical sieve?






33. What is the differential diagnosis of a testicular tumour?






34. What are the features of ulcers in syphillis?

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






36. What are the causes of portal hypertension?






37. What is the normal ABPI?






38. Pneumonectomy






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






40. What is the non-surgical treatment of a ganglion?

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41. What are the coordination abnormalities causes of dysphagia?






42. What is the treatment of a chemodectoma?






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






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






45. What clinical features would make you suspect that a parotid swelling is malignant in nature?






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

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47. What is the surgical treatment of lymphoedema?






48. What is the classification of liposarcoma?






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






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