ENT Pass Test

Question 1

What is the function of the lingual nerve?

Answer 1

Sensory innervation to the anterior two thirds of the tongue and floor of mouth

Question 2

How can cholesteatoma form from chronic otitis media

Answer 2

Long standing negative pressure (due to Eustachian tube blockage) can lead to damage to surrounding bone and ossicles

Question 3

Unilateral tinnitus refer

Answer 3

Urgently

Question 4

The thyroid gland develops from the …. of the tongue

Answer 4

Foramen caecum

Question 5

An emergency surgical airway should be done at what point?

Answer 5

Cricothyroid membrane

Question 6

Cheek pain after eating

Answer 6

Parotid duct stone

Question 7

Investigate a pleomorphic adenomas

Answer 7

Excursion biopsy

Question 8

Investigate a pulsating mass in the neck

Answer 8

Digital subtraction angiography

Question 9

Investigate a thyroid module

Answer 9

FNA

Question 10

Where is a cystic hydro a found

Answer 10

Infancy in posterior triangle of the neck

Question 11

Diagnose OSA in kids

Answer 11

Overnight polysomnography study

Question 12

In nose bleeds when may cautery be attempted

Answer 12

If anterior

Question 13

How do you classify nose bleeds

Answer 13

Anterior or posterior

Question 14

Diagnose sialolithesis

Answer 14

Plain radiograph

Question 15

What is the pathophysiology of sialolithesis

Answer 15

Salivary stagnation with epithelial injury along the salivary duct results in precipitation of calcium salts

Question 16

Manage sialolithesis

Answer 16

Medical - hydration compression and massage abx for infected glands
Surgical - duct cannulation with stone removal and gland excision

Question 17

Caucasian male with pancreatitis developes diabetes is suggestive of

Answer 17

Cystic fibrosis

Question 18

When does acute rejection occur?

Answer 18

Weeks to months after transplant

Question 19

How can acute rejection present

Answer 19

Graft tenderness and enlargement of graft