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1
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What is the auditory meatus lined by?

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  • epidermis
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2
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What lines the middle ear?

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  • columnar mucosa
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3
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What are the 3 bones that make up the ossicles of the middle ear?

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  • malleus
  • incus
  • stapes
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4
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What is contained within the inner ear?

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  • cochlea and vestibular apparatus
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5
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What lines the nasal vestibule?

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  • squamous epithelium
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6
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What lines the nose, sinuses and nasopharynx?

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  • pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium
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7
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What are the 3 major salivary glands?

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  • parotid
  • submandibular
  • sublingual
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8
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Serous cells of the salivary glands stain what colour?

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  • dark staining
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9
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Mucinous component of the salivary glands stain what colour?

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  • clear grey staining
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10
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Define otitis media?

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  • inflammation of the middle ear
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What usually causes otitis media?

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  • infection spread through eustachian tube
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12
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Cholesteatoma appears as what?

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  • pearly white mass in middle ear

- locally destructive

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13
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Acquired cholesteatoma may be a result of what?

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  • chronic otitis media

- perforated tympanic membrane

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14
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What is the most common malignant tumour of the ear?

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  • squamous cell carcinoma
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15
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Vestibular schwannoma is associated with what nevrve?

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  • vestibular portion of vestibulocohlear nerve

- CN VIII

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16
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Symptoms of vestibular schwannoma?

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  • tinnitus
  • ear ache
  • loss of balance
17
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What should you aim to rule out in a bilateral vestibular schwannoma in the young?

18
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Nasal polyps in a young patient, what should you rule out/

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  • Cystic fibrosis
19
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Granulomatosis with polyangitis is also known as/

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  • Wegner’s granulomatosis
20
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Granulomatosis with polyangitis is what?

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  • a small vessel vasculitis

- cANCA associated

21
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3 types of sinonasal papilloma

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  • inverted
  • exophytic
  • oncocytic
22
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Causes of sinonasal papilloma?

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  • HPV

- organic solvents

23
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Symptoms of sinonasal papilloma?

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  • blocked nose
24
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Potential causes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

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  • epstein barr virus
25
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Causes of a contact ulcer?

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  • benign response to injury
  • GORD
  • Intubation
26
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Squamous cell papilloma may be related to?

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  • HPV types 6 and 11
27
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Paraganglioma is a tumour arising from what?

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  • neuroendocrine cells
28
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Paraganglioma may secrete?

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  • catecholamines
29
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Paraganglioma may be linked to what endocrine condition?

30
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E6 of HPV blocks what pathway?

31
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E7 of HPV blocks what?

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  • RB

- tumour suppressor

32
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Sialolithiasis means?

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  • stones in the salivary glands
33
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Tumours in the salivary glands are most common on what gland?

34
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Warthin’s tumour has a strong association with what?

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  • smoking

- tumour of parotid

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