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Surgery questions for NEET PG
1032 Surgery questions in the Recallab bank, each with a verified answer, every option explained and a reference to a current edition. 17 of them are published in full — the rest are in the app.
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- A young man with pulmonary tuberculosis presents with massive recurrent hemoptysis. For angiographic treatment, which vascular structure should be evaluated first?
- A 60 year old man is diagnosed with carcinoma of the right lung. CECT of the chest shows a 5 x 5 cm tumour in the right upper lobe and a separate 2 x 2 cm tumour nodule in the same upper lobe. There…
- Surgical management of a case of undescended testis is indicated at which age?
- Which of the following is the most common site of intestinal obstruction in a case of gallstone ileus?
- Which type of haemorrhoids is treated by the injection of sclerosing agent?
- A child presents with an expansile swelling on medial side of the nose. Likely diagnosis is:
- All of the following are correct about axillary vein thrombosis, EXCEPT:
- Ulcer that may develop in burn tissue is:
- A patient is brought to the emergency department after a road traffic accident and is hypotensive. The most likely ruptured organ is:
- Patient presents with neck swelling and respiratory distress few hours after a thyroidectomy surgery. Next management would be:
- Following sexual intercourse, a person develops pain in the left testes that does not get relieved on elevation of scrotum. Diagnosis is:
- Carcinoma of the prostate commonly metastasises to the vertebrae:
- In a 27 yr old male most common cause of a colo-vesical fistula would be:
- True statement regarding 'Fistula in ano' is:
- A man aged 60 yrs has h/o IHD and atherosclerosis. He presents with abdominal pain and maroon stools; likely diagnosis here is:
- What is true regarding congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis :
- The most common site for squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus is:
- A patient suddenly experienced pain radiating along the medial border of the dorsum of foot. Which of the following nerve is most likely to be involved?
- In a case of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, which of the following metabolic disturbance is found?
- A 10 month old infant presents with acute intestinal obstruction. A contrast enema demonstrates intussusception. The most likely cause is:
- A 14 year old girl sustains a steam burn measuring approximately 15 by 18 cm over the ulnar aspect of her right forearm. Blisters develop over the entire burn, and by the time she is seen 6 hours…
- A 59 year old woman had a left femoral venous thrombosis during pregnancy 30 years ago. Her left great saphenous vein was stripped at the age of 21. She now presents with a large non-healing ulcer…
- In an adult with a pleural effusion, which is the most appropriate site for pleural aspiration (thoracocentesis)?
- Most common site of fracture of mandible is:
- Identify the instrument shown in the figure below:
- Identify the instrument shown in the figure below:
- Colitis cystica profunda is seen in case of:
- A 50 kg man sustains deep partial-thickness flame burns to 40% of his total body surface area at 06:00. He reaches the emergency department at 08:00, having received no fluid. Using the Parkland…
- A 45-year-old man is admitted with severe epigastric pain radiating to the back and a serum lipase five times the upper limit of normal. Ultrasound shows gallstones and no duct dilatation. He is…
- At open repair of a groin hernia in a 34-year-old man, the surgeon opens the inguinal canal and finds the sac emerging through the deep inguinal ring, lying anteromedial to the spermatic cord and…
- A 52-year-old man who takes ibuprofen daily for backache develops sudden severe epigastric pain that spreads across the whole abdomen within an hour. He lies absolutely still. The abdomen is rigid…
- A 41-year-old woman has episodic headache, palpitations and drenching sweats with blood pressure spikes to 210/120. Plasma free metanephrines are five times the upper limit and computed tomography…
- A 44-year-old woman has prominent tortuous veins along the medial aspect of the right leg with aching by the end of the day and ankle swelling. There is early hyperpigmentation above the medial…
- Which feature distinguishes a keloid from a hypertrophic scar?
- Under Park's classification, which is the commonest type of fistula-in-ano?
- A 12-year-old boy has a painless 2 cm swelling in the midline of the neck just below the hyoid bone. It is smooth, fluctuant and moves upwards both on swallowing and on protrusion of the tongue. What…
- Which of the following is a favourable prognostic factor in invasive breast carcinoma?
- A 54-year-old woman is to have surgery for a 1.8 cm invasive breast carcinoma with a clinically and radiologically negative axilla. Which measure would most reduce her risk of developing arm…
- A 34-year-old woman with chronic laxative abuse forms recurrent renal stones. Which stone type is characteristic, and why?
- A 42-year-old woman has a 7 cm mobile breast lump that has doubled in size over four months. The overlying skin is stretched and shiny with dilated veins but is not tethered, and there is no axillary…
- A 64-year-old man has painless progressive jaundice with pruritus, pale stools and dark urine. The gallbladder is not palpable. Ultrasound shows dilated intrahepatic ducts with a collapsed…
- A 52-year-old woman with recurrent urinary infections has a branched calculus filling the renal pelvis and all calyces. Urine culture repeatedly grows a urease-producing organism and the urine pH is…
- A 22-year-old man has a smooth, fluctuant, non-tender swelling in the left side of the neck that appeared after an upper respiratory infection. It lies deep to the anterior border of…
- A 58-year-old woman has biochemically proven primary hyperparathyroidism and meets the criteria for surgery: her corrected calcium is 1.2 mg/dL above the upper limit of normal and bone densitometry…
- In which zone of the prostate do most carcinomas arise, and why does this explain the clinical presentation?
- A 24-year-old man has had right iliac fossa pain for six days. He is apyrexial with a firm, tender, non-fluctuant mass in the right iliac fossa. There are no signs of generalised peritonitis and…
- A man has multiple duodenal ulcers extending beyond the first part of the duodenum, chronic diarrhoea that improves with a proton pump inhibitor, and ulcers that recur whenever it is stopped. Fasting…
- A 5-week-old firstborn boy has three days of forceful non-bilious vomiting immediately after feeds and is now losing weight. He remains hungry. When is the olive-shaped pyloric mass most reliably…
- A man thrown from a motorcycle has an unstable pelvic fracture, cannot pass urine, and has blood at the external meatus with a high-riding prostate on rectal examination. What is the immediate…
- Three years after an uncomplicated laparoscopic cholecystectomy, a woman develops jaundice. Imaging shows a soft, brown, friable stone in a dilated common bile duct. How should this stone be…
- In the Maastricht classification of donation after circulatory death, what does category III describe?
- A 6-year-old has had three febrile urinary tract infections. A micturating cystourethrogram shows contrast refluxing up both ureters into dilated calyces with blunted fornices. What grade is this…
- In monopolar diathermy the current passes from the instrument tip through the patient to a plate electrode. Which complication does this circuit create that bipolar diathermy avoids, and in which…
- A 30-year-old has episodic severe headache brought on by changes of head position, with vomiting. Magnetic resonance imaging shows a small rounded lesion at the foramen of Monro with symmetrical…