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Name 3 predisposing factors for perichondritis of the pinna

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Acute otitis externa, piercing, haematoma

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What bacterium is usually associated with perichonidritis of the pinna?

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Staph aureus, pseudomonas aeruginosa

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How do you treat otitis externa?

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Topical ear drops (antibiotic + steroid) plus analgesia

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What type of hearing loss is associated with chronic wax build up?

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Conductive

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Name 3 functions of ear wax

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Waterproofing, assists cleaning, some pretections against insects/bacteria/fungi

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Name the ossicles (lateral-> medial)

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Malleus, incus, stapes

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Who is usually affected by acute otitis media with effusion? How common?

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Aged 2 and 5 yrs

15-40% point prevalence from infancy 5

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What does acute otitis media with effusion look like otoscopically? Treatment?

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Tympanic membrane dull/opaque, fluid bubbles may be seen behind it
Usually settles without intervention
Otherwise: antibiotics, steroids, decongestants, autoinflation, gromits

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What is a cholesteatoma?

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Squamous epithelium trapped in skull base, that can erode or destroy important structures within the temporal bone
Usually affects attic area

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How does a cholesteatoma present?

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Intermittent painless offensive othorhea, conductive hearing loss, dizziness

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Treatment of cholesteatoma + risks

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Surgery

Labyrinthine fistula, brain herniation, bleeding

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Severe complications of chronic cholesteatoma

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Sigmoid sinus thrombosis, epidural abscess, meningitis, long term vertigo

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Give 2 ways perforation of the tympanic membrane presents

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Audible whistling sounds during sneezing, otorrhea. If painful: cholestaetoma or infection

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What surgery is used to treat a perforated tympanic membrane?

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Fat plug tympanoplasty

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What is tinnitus?

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Perception of sound without stimulus

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What is vertigo?

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Sensation that the world is spinning.whirling

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Give three ways in which an acoustic neuroma may present to an ENT surgeon

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Facial nerve palsy, hearing loss, tinnitus, balance disturbance

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What is the gold standard investigation for an acoustic neuroma?

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Gadolinium enhanced MRI

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What is Meniere’s?

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Triad of symptoms

Vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus

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20
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What is BPPV? Treatment?

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Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
Caused by a grain of calcium dislodged in the semicircular canal
Vertigo when they turn to a specific side in bed
Epley manoeuvre

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What is an exostosis?

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Bony outgrowths into the ear canal (eg surfer’s ear)

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What should you worry about with excessive ear pain ?

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Malignant otitis externa

Necrotic bony infection, seen in the immunocompromised

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23
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Treatment of labrinthitis

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Exercise helps

Antiemetics only acute treatment

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Why do the elderly present with dizziness?

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Visual loss, poor muscle tone, vestibular degeneration, brain ischaemic changes, benzodiazepines. Give them exercise!

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What is Ramsay Hunt syndrome?

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Herpes zoster infection
Rash in ear canal or back of mouth
Dizzy/deaf
Early acyclovir

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26
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Between what frequencies is a pure tone audiogram commonly measured?

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0-25db

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27
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What do circles and triangles mean on an audiogram?

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Circles: air conduction
Triangles: bone conduction

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Masked bone conduction is represented how on an audiogram?

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Filled in shapes

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29
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Name 3 investigative hearing tests

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Pure tone audiogram
Speech audiometry
Acoustic reflex testing

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What is the major cause of hearing loss in adults? What type of loss?

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Age related hearing loss

Sloping loss of upper frequencies

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5 categories of hearing ability

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Normal, mild, moderate, severe, profound

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32
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Which side should an unmasked bone conduction test be on?

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Doesn’t matter

Skull is a fused bone so sound travels to both ears

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What 3 things does a tympanogram measure?

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Compliance of ear drum
Volume of ear canal
Middle ear pressure

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34
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4 causes of tinnitus?

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Meniere’s
Damage to the inner canal
Otosclerosis
Salicylate poisoning

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35
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How do you test the hearing of an newborn and 18 months old?

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Otoacoustic emissions at birth

Auditory brainstem response

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36
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4 roles of the nose

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Humidify, warm and filter air
Primary immune response (lysozyme/adenoid tonsils)
Taste and smell
To breathe

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Name the 4 paranasal sinuses

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Frontal
Ethmoid
Maxillary
Sphenoid

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Name the type of mucosa found in the paranasal sinuses

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Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium

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39
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How can you determine nasal air flow?

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Metal tongue depressor under nose, breathe normally, comment on misting

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40
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Where do nose bleeds usually come from?

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Little’s area

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41
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Name 3 techniques for the management of epistaxis

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Cauterisation (silver nitrate/diathermy/laser)
Pressure on tip of nose
Packing (nasal tampon/gauze)
Endoscopic SPA ligation

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42
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Name the arteries that meet in Little’s area

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Sphenopalatine artery
Posterior and anterior ethmoidal arteries
Greater palatine
Superior labial artery

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43
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What is loss of sense of small called?

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Anosmia

44
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4 common causes of anosmia

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Polyps
Trauma
Cocaine abuse
Old age

45
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Unilateral foul nasal discharge in a child..

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Is a foreign body until proved otherwise

46
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Unilateral nasal discharge in an adult..

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Foreign body, rhinolith, tumour

47
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4 common aero-allergens associated with allergic rhinitis

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Pollen, fungal spores, dog and cat fur, house dust mites

48
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Treatment of allergic rhinitis

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Avoidance of allergen
Antihistamines
Nasal douches

49
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What is SMR?

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Submucous resection of the septum

50
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SMR vs septoplasty

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SMR: older technique. Preserves bilateral mucoperichondrial flaps and cartilaginous supports.
Septoplasty: correction of the deflected nasal septum, minimal removal of septal cartilage and/or bone

51
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SMD?

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Submucous diathermy of turbinates

52
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What is a nasal polyp? Treatment?

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Swelling of the lining of the nose, due to allergic inflammation. They contain inflammatory fluid and are non sensate.
Nasal steroid spray

53
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Unilateral nasal polyps are significant because..

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Could be a tumour or foreign body

54
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What is the triad that includes nasal polyps?

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Rhinosinusitis, bronchial asthma and nasal polyps

55
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What is the most common cause of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) in children vs adults?

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Children: Enlarged adenoids and tonsils
Adults: Obesity

56
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How do you investigate obstructive sleep apnoea? Treatment?

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Polysomnography

Nasal CPAP at night for children. Lose weight and don’t sleep on front in adults

57
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Most common infective agent for epiglottitis?

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Haemophilus influenza B (HiB)

Rare now due to HiB vaccine

58
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Croup/laryngotracheal bronchitis infective agents

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Parainfluenza 1/2/3
Adenovirus
Respiratory syncytial virus

59
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Treatment of epiglottitis?

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Humidified oxygen, being ready to intubate or perform cricothyroidotomy if needed

60
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Treatment of larynotracheal bronchitis

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Corticosteroids and nebulised adrenaline, oxygenation and monitoring

61
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Most common infective agent for tonsilitis

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Group B haemolytic streptococcus pyogenes

62
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How many episodes of tonsilitis is needed to warrant tonsilectomy?

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7/1 year
5/2 consecutive years
3/ 3 consecutive years

63
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What is quinsy? Treatment?

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Peritonsillar abscess
Aspiration, incision and drainage
Antibiotics

64
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Cause of glandular fever? Presentation?

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EBV (epstein barr virus)

Lymphadenopathy, sore throat, pharyngitis, palatal petechiae, fungal looking tonsilitis

65
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Where are the adenoids?

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Above soft palate

Posterior wall of nasopharynx

66
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What is stertor?

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Noisy inspiration due to obstruction above the larynx

67
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What is stridor?

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Noise from obstruction at level of larynx

Can be inspiratory, expiratory & biphasic

68
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3 signs associated with acute mastoiditis

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Mastoid area erythema, proptosis of auricle, fever

69
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4 aetiological agents in head and neck cancer

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Sun damage
Smoking
Alcohol
Betul chewing

70
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What type of carcinoma is most common in head and neck malignancy?

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SCC

71
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Earliest sign of a laryngeal malignancy

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Hoarse voice

72
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Worrying clinical signs/symptoms in head and neck malignancy

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Difficulty swallowing
Hoarse voice
Chronic mouth ulcer

73
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3 indications for a tracheostomy

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Emergency airway management
ITU longterm ventilation
Mass in larynx

74
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Common types of tracheostomy tubes

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Non fenestrated single cannula tube with cuff: acute. Dual cannula tube with cuff for chronic. Made of polyurethane/PVC

75
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Where does the parotid gland open?

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Inner surface of cheek, opposite second molar

76
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Most common type of tumour affects the parotid gland

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Pleomorphic adenoma

77
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Complications of a parotidectomy

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Facial nerve palsy

Salivary fistula

78
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What nerves are at risk in a submandibulectomy

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Hypoglossal, lingual, ansa cervicalis

79
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8 differentials of a neck lump

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Enlarged lymph node, cyst, tumour, lymphoma, lipoma, thyroid swelling, aneurysm, abscess

80
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Gold standard for investigation of a neck lump

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Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration with cytology

81
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Describe the external auditory canal

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2.5cm long
Outer 1/3 hairy, cartilage, secreted wax, non migratory
Inner 2/3 migratory skin, bone, thin sensitive skin

82
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How do you know which ear you are looking at?

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The umbo is the foot, the lateral malleolar process is the knee of a man on a horse

83
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2 parts of tympanic membrane

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Pars tensa, pars flaccida

84
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Name the 3 parts of the cochlear

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Vestibular canal
Cochlear duct
Tympanic canal

85
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What senses sound?

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Hair cell displacement-> cochlear neurones/ganglia = organ of corti
Tonotropic arrangement in cochlear

86
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How do you differentiate between conductive/sensorineural hearing loss with tuning forks

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Rinne test: mastoid and outside. Conductive hearing loss, bone conduction will be heard better.

Weber test: Sensorineural, sounds is perceived in good ear. In conductive hearing loss sound will be perceived in the affected ear. (primed for sensation)

87
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Whats the vestibule?

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Saccule and utricle

Balance organs

88
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Function of semicircular canal

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Detects angular acceleration in 3 different planes

89
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Function of labyrinth

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Sense of position in space and change in position

Helps maintain gaze (gyroscopic stabilisation of vision)

90
Q

What is oscilopsia?

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The world moves as I walk

Like video camera footage

91
Q

What forms the nasal septum?

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Ethmoid
Nasal bone
Septal cartilage
Maxilla
Palatine bone
Vomer
92
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What can nasal sinusitis lead to in children

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Periorbital cellulitis-> vision affected/ brain abscess

93
Q

What is found in the sphenoid sinus?

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Internal carotid artery
Optic nerve
Cavernous sinus
CN II, IV, VI

94
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Sinus functions

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Vocal resonance
Decreased skull weight
Crumple zone to protect other structures

95
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Name 2 ways of examining nose

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Nasendoscope

Thudicum speculum

96
Q

Name palpable neck anatomy

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Hyoid bone
Thyroid cartilage
Cricoid cartilage
Trachea

97
Q

Where do you palpate lymph nodes

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Cervical chain
Occipital
Posterior auricular
Parotid
Submandibular
Posterior triangle
Supraclavicular
98
Q

Time frame for neck lump/voice change/dysphagia

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4-6 weeks-> 2 week wait referral

99
Q

Describe the ladder of reconstruction

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  • Secondary healing (secondary intention, esp scalp and floor of mouth)
  • Direct closure (crescent shape and suture)
  • Skin graft (using planer, from thigh)
  • Obturation and implants (eg for hard palate, must occlude hole)
  • Local flaps
  • Pedicled flaps (artery, vein and tissue supplied)
  • Free flaps (esp bone from fibula)
100
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Biggest risk factor for oral cancer

A

HPV

101
Q

Branches of facial nerve

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Temporal
Zygomatic
Buccal
Mandibular
Cervical
(posterior auricular)
102
Q

What is the problem with a total thyroidectomy

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Gets rid of parathyroid glands too 
Hypocalcaemia
Spasms, twitching
Cardiac arrest
Bone weakness later
103
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How do you tell that hearing loss of sensorineural on audiometry?

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Same hearing loss with bone conduction as with air conduction

104
Q

Name the branches of the external carotid

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Some anatomists like freaking out poor medical students
Superior thyroid
Ascending pharyngeal
Lingual
Facial
Occipital
Posterior auricular
Maxillary
Superficial temporal
105
Q

Give 3 causes of saddle nose deformity

A

Cauterisation of both sides of septum
Cocaine abuse
Granulomatous disease (wagner’s)
Trauma

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