PG Degree Examinations in Orthopaedics (MS) – June  2015

The Book

Paper I – Basic Sciences Applied to Orthopaedics & Traumatology

Essay

1. Discuss briefly blood supply of femoral head from birth to adulthood. How will you manage fracture neck femur in nine year old child.

https://orthopaedicprinciples.com/fractures-of-the-femur-neck-in-children/

Short Essays:  

2. Bone mineralization.
3. Actin and myosin
4. Alkaline phosphatase
5. Wallerian degeneration
6. Osteomalacia
7. Bone bank
8. Giant cell
9. Blood products

************************************

Paper II –  Traumatology and Fractures

Essays:  

1. Enumerate the types of spinal cord lesions following fracture dislocation of C5-6 vertebrae and discuss the clinical features and management with prognosis of each type of lesion

Short Essays: 

2. Fracture calcaneus in adults
3. Interlocking nail
4. Classification of open fractures
5. Stress fractures
6. Plastic deformation of bone
7. Floating knee
8. Crutch palsy
9. Neglected tendo-achillis injury 

*********************************

Paper III –  Orthopaedic Diseases

Essays:   

1. What are the causes for neurological complications in spinal tuberculosis. How

will you manage a case of tuberculosis of the dorsal spine with paraplegia

 

Short Essays:   

2. Madura foot
3. Kienbock’s disease
4. Tinel’s sign
5. Adhesive capsulitis
6. Grice-green extra articular arthrodesis
7. Patellar tendon bearing prosthesis
8. Osteoid osteoma
9. Discoid meniscus

**************************************

Paper IV –  Recent Advances in Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Essays:                                                                                                                                   

1. With regard to slipped capital femoral epiphysis, discuss:

• Prediction of contralateral slip
• Treatment updates
• Femero-acetabular impingement associated with it

Short Essays:                                                                                                 

2. Simple bone cyst
3. Stem cell in orthopaedics
4. Poller screw
5. Recent advances in internal fixation of distal tibial fractures
6. Bearing surface in total hip arthroplasty
7. Fresh frozen allograft
8. Multidirectional instability of shoulder
9. Advances in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction