FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
APRIL 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
PAPER IV
ENT/APRIL/16/28/IV
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. What is auto transfusion?
What are the different blood components?
What are the indications of blood transfusions in ENT?

2. What is neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
What is the rational behind its use?
Advantages and disadvantages of neoadjuvant
chemotherapy.

3. What is image guided surgery?
Steps of image guided surgery.
Indications of image guided surgery in Otology

4. What are the tributaries of Internal Jugular Vein?
Complications of radical neck dissection.
5+5
5. Principles, advantages, disadvantages and clinical applications
of PET (Position Emission tomography).

6. What is electronic nose?
What is its relevance in modern rhinology?
4+6
7. Classify the drugs used in management of allergic rhinitis.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of these drugs?
2+8
8. What is brachytherapy?
Its clinical application in Otolaryngology.
4+6
9. What is clinical audit?
What is the use of clinical audit in ENT?
4+6
10. Design of a randomized control trial (RCT).
What are the types of RCT?
What is blinding?