FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
PLASTIC SURGERY
PAPER III
PLS/D/16/37/III
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. Role of Endoscopy in aesthetic facial surgery in Plastic
Surgery.
Tissue engineering in reconstruction of head neck.
5+5
2. Recent advances in surgery for longstanding facial nerve
palsy.
Diode Laser.
5+5
3. Stem cells in wound cover.
Nasoendoscopy in cleft palate and velopharyngeal
incomptetence..
5+5
4. FUE in hair transplant.
Use of MRI in brachial plexus injury.
5+5
5. Indications, limitations and technique of Liposuction.

6. Male pattern baldness.
Dermabrasion.
5+5
7. Distraction histogenesis.
Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA).
5+5
8. Recent advances in treatment of keloid and hypertrophic
scar.
Keratinocyte culture
5+5
9. Role of Botulinum toxin in Plastic Surgery.
Management of sternal dehiscence after sternotomy
closure.
5+5
10. How do you assess a patient requiring reduction
mammoplasty?
How do you select the procedure accordingly?
Principle of inferiorly based pedicle technique.