FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017
OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY(ENT)
PAPER III

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EXAMINATION HALL.
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• Answers to questions of Part and Part are to be strictly attempted in separate answer sheet(s)
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• Answers to questions of Part attempted in answer sheet(s) of Part or vice versa shall not be
evaluated.
PART B
6. What is functional head and neck surgery? What are
the advantages of transoral endoscopic removal over
open surgery and radiotherapy in early vocal cord
carcinoma?
3+7
7. What is robotic surgery? What are its characteristics in
design and technology? Enumerate its disadvantages.
.

8. Translaryngeal tracheostomy.
What are the different types of tracheostomy
tubes?
4+6
9. Fibre-optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing
Indications, contraindications and methods.

10. Cricopharyngeal myotomy: Indications, procedure,
advantages its complications.