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1
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SCC of the ear symptoms

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Discharge (may be bleeding)
Hearing loss
Progressive otalgia

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Why do you give life-long thyroxine in follicular thyroid cancer?

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Follicular thyroid cancer is sensitive to TSH which may stimulate regrowth of tumour

Give life long thyroxine as this will suppress the production of TSH

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3
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Histology of tonsils

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Squamous
Deep cysts
Lymphoid follicles

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4
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Adenoid histology

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Collumnar

Deep folds

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5
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Columnar and deep folds, what am I? Hint Rory bradshaw

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Adenoids

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6
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Centor Criteria

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Fever
Absence of cough
Lymphadenopathy (anterior cervical)
Pus

2+ points –> antibiotics

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7
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Hammans sign?

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Crunching rasping sound, hear over precordium
“Mediastinal crunch” = air in the mediastinum
Oseophageal rupture, cardiac surgery, alveolar rupture

Most often seen in young women

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8
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MEN 1

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Parathyroid

Pituitary

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MEN 2A

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Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Adrenal (phaeochromocytoma)
Parathyroid

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10
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MEN 2B

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Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Adrenal

Typical phenotype: slim body habitus, neuromas of lips, tongue and GI tract

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11
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Toxic megacolon

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Transverse >5.5cm

Caecum >9 cm

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12
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Unilateral red eye with photophobia, pain and mild reduction in visual acuity
SMALL PUPIL

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Iritis

  • pupil is smaller than unaffected side
  • hypopyon may be seen
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Hypo-osmolality
Hyponatremia
Increase in urine osmolality

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SIADH

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14
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Targets of the children’s diabetes team?

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Routine screening (microvascular disease, BP, retinal, urine-creatinine ratio)

Registration on SCI

HbA1C < 58 mmol/mol
(if had for less than 1 year = <48 mmol/l)

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15
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Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

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When shingles affects your facial nerve

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16
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Which organ tends to be spared in PAN?

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The lungs

17
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Waldeyers ring

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Adenoids (pharyngeal)
(Palatine) tonsils
Lingual

18
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Rheumatoid arthritis and the eyes

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Dry eyes (keratoconjunctivitis sicca)
Scleritis
Corneal melt (peripheral ulcers)
19
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Branch vein occlusion

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Painless disturbance in vision
May be asymptomatic
May be aware of loss of part of field

20
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Tympanometry

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Assess the mobility of the tympanic membrane

-might use this and audiometry in OME

21
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Two beta blockers which reduce mortality in any grade of heart failure

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Carvedilol

Bisoprolol

22
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PAPILLARY DERMAL MICROABSCESSES

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Dermatitis herpetiformis

23
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Treatment for undifferentiated thyroid cancer

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Cervical radiotherapy
(or radio. in combo with chemo)
Undifferentiated will not respond to radioiodine

24
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Corneal ulcer symptoms

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Pain + + +
Photophobia
Profuse lacriamtion
Vision may be reduced
Red eye - circumcorneal
25
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ACEi contraidndications

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Renal artery stenosis
Pregnancy
Previous angioedema

26
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Severe hypotension and dehydration precipitated by intercurrent illness, accident or operatino

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Addisonian crisis

27
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Menetriers Disease

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Giant gastric folds

Hyperplasia of gastric outs, atrophy of glands and increase in mucosal thickness

28
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Unilateral throat pain and odynophagoa
TRISMUS (locking jaw)
3-7 days of preceding acute tonsilitis

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Peritonsillar abscess

Treatment = aspiration and Abx

29
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Maculopapular rash
Stomatitis
Conjunctivitis
Symblepharon (when eye fuses to eye lid)
Occlusion of lacrimal glands
Corneal ulcers
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome

30
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Patella dislocation managment

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Reduction with extension
X-ray
Aspiration
Brace
Physio
31
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Drugs to use in BP management for gestational diabetes

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Labetalol
Nifedipine
Methyldopa

Give folic acid 5mg
Avoid ACEi, statin

32
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Side effect of chloramphenicol

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Aplastic anaemia

33
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Conditions with trendelenberg gait?

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CDH
DDH
SUFE
Muscular dystrophy
Cerebral palsy

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