FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 2017
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
PAPER III
ENT/J/17/28/III
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. Surgical anatomy of pharyngeal constrictors.
Indications, procedure and complications of cricopharyngeal
myotomy.

2. How will you assess a patient with a voice disorder?
Indications and procedure of medialisation thyroplasty.
4+6
3. What is laryngopharyngeal reflux disease?
Clinical manifestations and treatment of laryngopharyngeal reflux
disease.

4. Enumerate the types and techniques of tracheostomy.
Complications of tracheostomy.

5. What is alaryngeal speech?
Various techniques of voice rehabilatation after total laryngectomy
with their advantages and disadvantages.
2+8
6. What are the various phases of deglutition?
Oesophageal mobility disorders and their management.
2+8
7. Etiopathogenesis and clinical features of Juvenile Recurrent
Respiatory Papillomatosis.
Management of Juvenile Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis
including recent advances.

8. How does a patient with inhaled foreign body present clinically?
How you will remove a foreign body from airway and how such
patients are anaesthetised?

9. Principle, types and outcomes of conservation laryngeal surgery.

10. What is Reinke's edema?
Grading of disease and principles of surgery.