FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
PAPER I
ENT/J/16/28/I
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. Enumerate various electrophysiological tests for neonatal
screening for hearing.
Priniciple of Otoacoustic emission its limitation.

2. Principles of sound conduction.
Relevance of each principle in tympanoplasty procedures.
2+8
3. Define necrotizing otitis externa.
Name its causative organism.
Its clinical features and treatment.

4. Define cholesteatoma.
Theories of its formation.
2+8
5. Classify various types of mastoidectomy.
Enumerate indications of cortical mastoidectomy its
complications.
Enumerate landmarks at cortical mastoidectomy completion.

6. Define Osseointegration.
Indications complications of Bone Anchored Hearing Aids.

7. Enumerate causes of Facial Nerve Palsy.
House-Brackmann Staging of Facial Nerve Palsy.
Enumerate topodiagnostic tests with explanation.

8. Define Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential.
Its principle, uses method.

9. Define Noise Induced Hearing Loss.
Its pathology management.

10. Clinical features of Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome.
Give its pathological radiological features.