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1
Q

What is the most common:
Indication for surgery
with Crohn’s disease

A

Small bowel obstruction (SBO)

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2
Q

Type of melanoma?

A

Superficial spreading

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3
Q

Type of breast cancer?

A

Infiltrating ductal

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4
Q

Site of breast cancer?

A

Upper outer quadrant

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5
Q

Vessel involved with a

bleeding duodenal ulcer?

A

Gastroduodenal artery

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6
Q

Cause of common bile

duct obstruction?

A

Choledocholithiasis

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7
Q

Cause of cholangitis?

A

Bile duct obstruction resulting from

choledocholithiasis

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8
Q

Cause of pancreatitis?

A

EtOH

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9
Q

Bacteria in stool?

A

Bacteroides fragilis (“B. frag”)

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10
Q

Cause of SBO in adults in

the United States?

A

Postop peritoneal adhesions

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11
Q

Cause of SBO in children

A

Hernias

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12
Q

Cause of emergency
abdominal surgery in the
United States?

A

Acute appendicitis

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13
Q

Site of GI carcinoids?

A

Appendix

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14
Q

Abdominal x-ray (AXR)

finding with SBO?

A

Air-fluid levels

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15
Q

Electrolyte deficiency

causing ileus?

A

Hypokalemia

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16
Q

Cause of transfusion

hemolysis

A

Clerical error

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17
Q

Cause of blood transfusion

resulting in death?

A

Clerical error (wrong blood types)

18
Q

Site of distant metastasis

of sarcoma?

19
Q

Cause of shock in a

surgical patient?

A

Hypovolemia

20
Q

Position of anal fissure

21
Q

Cause of large bowel

obstruction?

A

Colon cancer

22
Q

Type of colonic volvulus?

A

Sigmoid volvulus

23
Q

Cause of fever 48 postoperative

hours?

A

atelectasis

24
Q 
Bacterial cause of urinary
tract infection (UTI)?
A

Escherichia coli

25
Q

Chest x-ray (CXR) finding
with traumatic thoracic
aortic injury?

A

Widened mediastinum

26
Q

Abdominal organ injured
in blunt abdominal
trauma?

A

Liver (not the spleen, as noted in recent

studies!)

27
Q

Abdominal organ injured
in penetrating abdominal
trauma?

A

Small bowel

28
Q

Benign tumor of the liver?

A

Hemangioma

29
Q

Malignancy of the liver?

30
Q

Pneumonia in the ICU?

A

Gram-negative bacteria

31
Q

Cause of epidural

hematoma

A

Middle meningeal artery injury`

32
Q

Cause of lower GI

bleeding

A

Upper GI bleeding

33
Q

Hernia?

A

Inguinal hernia (right more than left)

34
Q

Cause of esophageal

perforation?

A

Iatrogenic instrumentation (e.g., EGD)

35
Q

Cancer in females?

A

Lung cancer

36
Q

Cancer in males?

A

Prostate cancer

37
Q

Type of cancer causing
DEATH in males and
females?

A

LUNG cancer

38
Q

Cause of free peritoneal

air?

A

Perforated PUD

39
Q

Symptom with gastric

cancer?

A

Weight loss

40
Q

Site of colon cancer
hematogenous
metastasis?

41
Q

Cause of death ages

1-44?

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