FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016

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EXAMINATION HALL.
ORTHOPAEDICS
PAPER IV
Please read carefully the important instructions mentioned on Page
• 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. Management of degenerative arthritis of knee in the young
patients.
Visco supplementation for knee arthritis.
7+3
7. Enumerate the causes of painful stiff knee after total knee
replacement.
How will you investigate and manage such a case?
3+7
8. Arthroscopic management of osteochondral lesion of knee.
Etiology of osteochondritis dessicans.
6+4
9. Modified Stoppa's approach for acetabulum fractures.
Classification of brachial plexus injury.
5+5
10. Define drug resistant tuberculosis.
How do you suspect drug resistance in spinal
tuberculosis?
How will you investigate and manage a case of suspected
drug resistant tuberculosis?