Nose & Pns-misc disorders of nasal cavity

Question 1

Compounds that make up rhinolith

Answer 1

CaCO3
Ca3(PO4)2
MgCO3
Mg3(PO4)2

Question 2

Treatment of rhinolith

Answer 2

Endoscopic removal

Question 3

Main clinical feature of foreign body of nose

Answer 3

Foul smelling nasal discharge

Epistaxis

Question 4

Why are batteries urgently removed from the nose

Answer 4

They release alkali which can cause necrosis

Question 5

Cystic swelling of nose D/D

Answer 5

Nasal encephalocele
Nasal glioma
Sermons cyst

Question 6

What is nasal myiasis?

Answer 6

Maggots in nose

Question 7

Treatment of nasal myiasis

Answer 7

Maggot oil instillation of nose (chloroform + turpentine oil)

Question 8

What is choanal atresia

Answer 8

Disorder due to persistence of bucconasal membrane

Question 9

IMMEDIATE treatment of choanal atresia

Answer 9

McGovern’s technique

Question 10

Most common site of leak

Answer 10

Cribriform plate

Question 11

Handkerchief test

Answer 11

Non-sticky like water

CSF rhinorrhoea

Question 12

Most confirmatory test of cns rhinorrhoea

Answer 12

Beta-2 transferrin estimation

Question 13

Target sign /halo sign

Answer 13

CSF rhinorrhoea

Question 14

Best radiological investigation for csf rhinorrhoea

Answer 14

HRCT skull base

Question 15

TRAUMATIC csf leak

Mc site

Answer 15

Roof of ethmoid/fives ethmoidalis

Question 16

Mc cause of csf rhinorrhoea

Answer 16

Iatrogenic