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S/S of Lung Cancer - ️️1. Anorexia, weight loss, or asthenia occurs in 55-90% 2. Up to 60% have a new cough or a change in a chronic cough 3. 6-31% have hemoptysis 4. 25-40% complain of pain 5. change in voice (compromise of the recurrent laryngeal nerve) 6. superior vena cava syndrome (obstruction of the superior vena cava with supraclavicular venous engorgement) 7. Horner syndrome (ipsilateral ptosis, miosis, and anhidrosis from involvement of the inferior cervical ganglion and the...

Appendicitis Inflammation of the appendix usually in persons 10-19. S&S: periumbilical pain, RLQ pain, nvd, anorexia. Pain may initially be epigastric or periumbilical then settle in RLQ. Perforation, peritonitis and abscess formation are all potential complications UC S&S recurrent diarrhea, bloody stools, febrile, polyarthritis, uveitis, sclerosing cholangitis, erythema nodosum and pyoderma gangrenosum UC complications fissures, hemorrhoids, perirectal abscess, toxic megacolon, col...

Surgery EOR Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers what is the most common type of liver cancer? - Answer- hepatocellular carcinoma tx for hemochromatosis (excessive iron loading) - Answer- deferoxamine chelation HBsAg - Answer- acute/chronic infection HBeAg - Answer- VERY INFECTIOUS acute/chronic infection infectivity wild type viral infection anti-HBc - Answer- marker of exposure persists indefinitely anti-HBe - Answer- low infectivity Anti-HBs - Answer- marker of immunity VACCI...

Surgery EOR Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers what is the most common type of liver cancer? - Answer- hepatocellular carcinoma tx for hemochromatosis (excessive iron loading) - Answer- deferoxamine chelation HBsAg - Answer- acute/chronic infection HBeAg - Answer- VERY INFECTIOUS acute/chronic infection infectivity wild type viral infection anti-HBc - Answer- marker of exposure persists indefinitely anti-HBe - Answer- low infectivity Anti-HBs - Answer- marker of immunity VACCI...

PAEA General Surgery EOR Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass what are the 2 conditions under the inflammatory bowel disease umbrella? - Answer- 1. ulcerative colitis 2. crohn's dz in comparing ulcerative colitis and crohn's dz, which is: -limited to the colon w/ rectum always involved *VS* mouth to anus -transmural *VS* mucosa/submucosa involved -LLQ *VS* RLQ pain -bloody diarrhea *VS* non -complications of perianal dz, strictures, fistulas & granulomas *VS* colon cancer & toxic me...

Esophageal Cancer • Esophageal Cancer with age, males - 17k/year; <15% under 55 - Risk factors: smoking, low fruit & vegetables, obesity, trauma, urban, achalasia, male gender, and GERD and Barrett’s esophagus • Squamous Cell (mid-esophagus) or Adenocarcinoma (esophageal-gastric junction) - Inconsistent link with HPV (+parts of Asia, H. pylori) - Gene-environment interaction (familial aggregation) •Symptoms are late - Difficulty swallowing - decreased Nutritional intake •...

Cellular Adaptation - correct answer 1.Atrophy: decrease in cell size 2.Hypertrophy: increase in cell size 3.Hyperplasia: increase in cell number 4. Metaplasia: reversible replacement of one mature cell type by another less mature cell type 5.Dysplasia (atypical hyperplasia): deranged cellular growth (size, shape, and organization) Metaplasia - correct answer Reversible replacement of one cell by another cell type Bronchial metaplasia: (in smokers) - normal columnar ciliat...

PAEA General Surgery EOR Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass what are the 2 conditions under the inflammatory bowel disease umbrella? - Answer- 1. ulcerative colitis 2. crohn's dz in comparing ulcerative colitis and crohn's dz, which is: -limited to the colon w/ rectum always involved *VS* mouth to anus -transmural *VS* mucosa/submucosa involved -LLQ *VS* RLQ pain -bloody diarrhea *VS* non -complications of perianal dz, strictures, fistulas & granulomas *VS* colon cancer & toxic me...

Women's Health - Gynecologic MalignanciesWhat is the MC gynecologic malignancy in the US? - correct answer endometrial cancer What are risk factors for endometrial cancer? - correct answer HONDA -HTN -obesity -nulliparous -diabetes -advanced age -breast CA -tamoxifen -late menopause -high estrogen levels What decreases the risk for endometrial cancer? - correct answer -smoking -oral contraceptives What is the MC type of endometrial cancer? - correct answer adenocarcinom...

1. While shaving one morning, a 23-year-old man nicks his lip with a razor. Seconds after the injury, the bleeding stops. Which of the following mechanisms is most likely to reduce blood loss from a small dermal arteriole? □ (A) Protein C activation □ (B) Vasoconstriction □ (C) Platelet aggregation □ (D) Neutrophil chemotaxis □ (E) Fibrin polymerization - Answer-1 (B) Vasoconstriction :The initial response to injury is arteriolar vasoconstriction, but this is transient, and the coagula...