Surgical basics

Question 1

Define fistula

Answer 1

An abnormal connection between two epithelial surfaces

Question 2

What is a Kocher incision?

Answer 2

The incision made in open cholecystectomy

Curved incision below R rib costal margin

Question 3

What is a Mercedes-Benz incision?

Answer 3

Incision made for liver transplant

2 curved incision below costal margins and vertical midline incision

Question 4

What is a paramedian incision?

Answer 4

Incision made lateral to the midline

For access to lateral viscera eg spleen, adrenals

Question 5

What is a Lanz incision?

Answer 5

Transverse incision made in the RIF at McBurney’s point

Used for appendicectomy

Question 6

What is a gridiron incision?

Answer 6

Oblique incision made in RIF at McBurney’s point

Used for appendicectomy

Question 7

What is a Rutherford Morrison incision?

Answer 7

Hockey stick/ J-shape incision in the RIF

Used in kidney transplant

Question 8

Which incision is used most commonly in emergency abdominal surgery?

Answer 8

Midline incision

Question 9

How many incisions are typically made in laparoscopic abdominal surgery?

Answer 9

Min 3

Question 10

What is a Pfannenstiel incision?

Answer 10

Curved transverse incision in suprapubic area

For Caesarean section

Question 11

What is a Joel Cohen incision?

Answer 11

Straight transverse incision in suprapubic area

For Caesarean section. Better than Pfannenstiel