General Surgery — Flashcards

Flashcard 81: What medications can cause Tinnitus _____

Answer: Aspirin/NSAIDs Aminoglycosides Loop Diuretics Quinine

Flashcard 82: Management for Vestibular Neuronitis = _____ for rapid relief for severe cases

Answer: buccal or IM prochloroperazine

Flashcard 83: Conservative first-line treatment for Cyclical Mastalgia includes _____

Answer: standard oral and topical analgesia

Flashcard 84: There is a _____ chance of siblings and children of BRCA1 carriers to also have the gene mutation.

Answer: 50%

Extra: BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations follow an **autosomal dominant** inheritance pattern. Therefore, first-degree relatives (parents, siblings, and children) of a carrier have a 50% (1 in 2) chance of inheriting the mutation.

Flashcard 85: Ramsay Hunt Syndrome is caused by the reactivation of the _____ in the 7th Cranial Nerve

Answer: Varicella Zoster Virus

Flashcard 86: _____ presents like folliculitis in African or African-Caribbean Men in the bearded area but due to irritation rather than infection

Answer: Pseudofolliculitis Barbae

Flashcard 87: What is the management of Ramsay Hunt Syndrome: _____

Answer: Oral Aciclovir & Corticosteroids

Flashcard 88: Unilateral symptoms in Chronic Rhinosinusitis (e.g. facial pain on bending forward) is a _____ therefore needs a referral to ENT

Answer: RED FLAG

Flashcard 89: _____ is a common, benign breast condition where milk-producing lobules become enlarged and distorted by scar-like fibrous tissue

Answer: Sclerosing Adenosis

Flashcard 90: Molluscum Contagiosum is a _____ condition that spontaneously resolves within 18 months

Answer: self-limiting