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.
ORTHOPAEDICS
PAPER II
ORTHO/APRIL/16/27/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. Epiphysiodesis.
Callotasis.
5+5
2. Paget's disease: Clinical features, biochemical investigations
and medical treatment.

3. Ankylosis and arthrodesis.
Foot drop and equinus deformity
Diplegia and double hemiplegia.

4. Types and principles of high tibial osteotomy for
osteoarthrosis.
10
5. Pyknodysostosis
Codeman's tumor
5+5
6. Chemotherapy for osteosarcoma.
10
7. Metatarsus adductus.
Congenital dislocation of patella.
5+5
8. What is Gower's sign?
Clinical findings, investigations, pathology and treatment
with prognosis of Duchenne's muscular dystropy.
2+8
9. Rotation plasty.
Sequalae of septic hip in an infant.
5+5
10. Describe with diagram the extensor expansion of finger.
Pathological anatomy of Boutonniere and Swan-neck
deformities in rheumatoid arthritis.
4+6