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.
GENERAL SURGERY
PAPER II
SURG/APRIL/16/12/II
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. Various types of skin grafts.
Various surgical conditions where myocutaneous flaps are used
(mentioning the name of myocutaneous flap used in that
particular condition).
6+4
2. Staging of soft tissue sarcoma.
Clinical presentation, investigations and management of
retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma.

3. Clinical features, diagnosis and management of primary
hyperparathyroidism.

4. Classify cutaneous malignant melanoma.
How will you investigate and manage a case of cutaneous
malignant melanoma?

5. Enumerate the causes of solitary thyroid nodule (STN).
Management of a 50 year old woman presenting with STN of
one year duration.
2+8
6. Devices and drugs used to control intraoperative hemorrhage.
6+4
7. Anatomy of cervical lymph nodes.
What are the different types of neck node dissection and their
complications?

8. What is locally advanced breast cancer?
How will you investigate and manage a patient with locally
advanced breast cancer?

P.T.O
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.
GENERAL SURGERY
PAPER II
9. What are incidentalomas?
Clinical features, investigations and management of
pheochromocytoma.

10. Different types of hydrocephalus.
How will you investigate and manage a patient of
hydrocephalus?
4+6