PG Degree Examinations in Orthopaedics (MS) – May 2014

The Book

Paper  I – Basic Sciences Applied to Orthopaedics & Traumatology

Essays:  

1. Discuss the healing of fractures. How will you manage infected non union of fracture shaft of femur in a 20 years old male.

Short Essays:  

2. Isotope scan in diagnosis of bone infections
3. Looser’s zone
4. Anatomy of rotator cuff
5. Neurogenic claudication
6. Syme’s amputation
7. PTB prosthesis
8. Compartment syndrome
9. Normal gait 

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Paper II –  Traumatology and Fractures

Essays:  

1. Classify the lateral condyle fractures of humerus in a child. Discuss the clinical features, management and complications of this fracture in a five year old child

Short Essays: 

2. Fracture neck of talus
3. Tension band wiring
4. Monteggia fractures
5. Describe NO-MAN’S LAND in the hand and its relevance
6. Chance fracture
7. Fracture disease
8. Wound debridement
9. Thomas splint            

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Paper III –  Orthopaedic Diseases

Essays:                                                                                                                        

1. Discuss the  causes  of  pain  around  the  shoulder  with  partial  restriction  of How will you manage a case of chronic rotator cuff injury.

https://orthopaedicprinciples.com/evaluation-of-shoulder-pain/

Short Essays: 

2. Tennis elbow
3. Tarsal coalition
4. Discoid meniscus
5. Chondromalacia patella
6. Blount’s disease
7. Jones transfer in radial nerve palsy
8. Osteoblastoma
9. Adhesive capsulitis 

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Paper IV –  Recent Advances in Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Essays:  

1. What is distraction osteogenesis. Enumerate the indications for it and discuss different methods of distraction osteogenesis

Short Essays: 

2. Bone graft substitutes
3. Biodegradable implants
4. Ceramics in orthopaedics
5. Trauma scoring systems
6. Limb salvage in tumours
7. TENS
8. Gallium bone scan
9. Nosocomial infections