Surgery Flashcards
What is this disease
Achalasia
30 year old patient had sister dx with breast cancer at age 47. How should they be screened?
As first degree relative <50, they should start annual screening at age 40 until 74.
Man with two first degree relatives dx with colon cancer (aged 74, 87). Screening?
FOBT every 2 years from 40-49
Colonscopy 5 yearly from 50-74
4 physical exam signs for appendicitis
Pain at McBurney’s point, Rovsing’s sign, Psoas sign, Obturator sign
Anterior nose bleed from what area?
Kieselbach’s plexus/ Little’s area
Treatment for achalasia? Ideal (1) + short term relief (1) + very old people (1)
Myotomy
Botulinum toxin
Endoscopic balloon dilatation
What sign is this and for what disease?
Grey-Turner’s sign, acute pancreatitis
Pathophysiology indirect inguinal hernia
Failure of process vaglinalis to close
Parotid tumour without facial nerve involvement?
Pleomorphic adenoma
Scrotal swelling, attached to the testis and can be palpated posteriorly or at the upper pole of the testis
Epididymal cyst
What’s Psoas sign? What’s it for?
Right leg hip flexion against resistance causes RIF pain
Sign for appendicitis
Needle thoracotomy landmarks?
2nd intercostal space along the midclavicular line
Mets most likely to go to bone? (5)
Breast, Lung, Thyroid, Renal, Prostate
Pancreatic cancer tumour markers? (2)
CA 19-9 and CEA
Most common cause of bloody nipple discharge and differentials (4)?
Intraductal papilloma
Mastitis
Invasive carcinoma
Pages disease of breast
Inflammatory breat cancer
Mx of simple breast cyst in young woman?
Reassurance and no follow up
Most diagnostic test for acute pancreatitis?
Lipase
Familial risk for breast cancer increases with what gene?
Increase risk of what other cancers?
BRCA mutation
Prostate, ovarian, pancreatic
What do you offer BRCA mutation positive women?
Prophylactic bilateral masectomy and bilateral oophrectomy
Familial adenomatous polyposis mx?
Prophylactic colocectomy
What is this disease
Diffuse oesophageal spasm
Radiation for colon cancer or rectal cancer?
Rectal
NO radiotherapy for colon
What causes this infection?
Echinococcus granulosus
Where is McBurney’s point? What does it represent?
Right illiac fossa; 1/3 of the distance from ASIS to umbilicus
Maximum tenderness for appendicitis
What cancers are associated in lynch syndrome?
Lynch CEO
Colon cancer
Endometrial cancer
Ovarian cancer
Treatment of ascending cholangitis? (3)
IVABx (amoxycillin, gentamicin, metronidazole)
Emergent ERCP
Urgent or elective cholecysectomy
Clinical sign for painless gallbladder palpation?
Courvoisier’s sign
Chest drain placement landmarks?
4th intercostal space (along nipple line) in between anterior and median axillary line (safe triangle)