FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017
ORTHOPAEDICS
PAPER III

POSSESSION/USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE EXAMINATION
HALL.
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• Answers to questions of Part and Part are to be strictly attempted in separate answer
sheet(s) and the main supplementary answer sheet(s) used for each part must be tagged
separately.
• Answers to questions of Part attempted in answer sheet(s) of Part or vice versa shall not
be evaluated.
PART B
6. a. Define stress fracture.
b. Enumerate common sites for stress fracture
c. Causes of stress fractures
d. Clinical features, classification and management of
stress fracture of femoral neck in young adults.

7. a. Classify proximal radial fractures in children
b. Its management principles in fresh fractures
c. Management principles in malunited fractures

8. a. Define amputation
b. Enumerate the indications for amputation
c. Discuss any one objective method to decide
amputation limb salvage after traumatic limb injury.

9. a. Effects of polytrauma on respiratory physiology.
b. What is 'second hit phenomena'?
c. Principles of damage control Orthopaedics.

10. a. Discuss wound ballistics briefly.
b. Pathologic anatomy of ballistic wounds and its
management principles