Postgraduate orthopaedics : MCQS and EMQS for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)

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Postgraduate Orthopaedics:
MCQs and EMQs for the FRCS
(Tr & Orth)

Postgraduate
Orthopaedics: MCQs
and EMQs for the FRCS
(Tr & Orth)
Edited by
Kesavan Sri-Ram, BSc, MRCS (Eng), FRCS (Tr & Orth)
SeniorArthroplastyFellow,RoyalNationalOrthopaedicHospitalandWycombeHospital,UK
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Contents
List of contributors page viii
ForewordMr Barry Ferris x
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction 1 7 Foot and ankle 119
Kesavan Sri-Ram Kesavan Sri-Ram and Andrew
Robinson
2 Hand andwrist 4 Questions 119
Maxim Horwitzand Elliot Answers 132
Sorene
Questions 4 8 Pathology 144
Answers 17 DanyalH.NawabiandTimW.R.Briggs
Questions 144
3 Shoulder andelbow 25
Answers 158
DeborahS.Higgs and Simon
Lambert 9 Paediatric orthopaedics 172
Questions 25 Russell Hawkins and Deborah M.
Answers 38 Eastwood
Questions 172
4 Spine 47
Answers 184
Zaher Dannawi and Rajiv A. Bajekal
Questions 47 10 Trauma 198
Answers 60 Paul Whittingham-Jones, Kesavan
Sri-Ramand DennisEdwards
5 Hip and pelvis 71 Questions 198
Nashat Siddiqui and Phil Kerr Answers 211
Questions 71
Answers 83 11 Basic science 223
Ben Rudge and John A. Skinner
6 Knee 93 Questions 223
Kesavan Sri-Ram and Answers 235
Howard Ware
Questions 93
Answers 106 Index 246
vii
Contributors
Mr Rajiv A. Bajekal, MS (Orth), ChM Mr Simon Lambert, BSc, FRCS, FRCS Ed
(Orth),FRCS (Orth) (Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Barnet Consultant Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon,
Hospital, London Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital,
Stanmore
Professor Tim W.R. Briggs, MD (Res),
MCh (Orth), FRCS Mr Danyal H. Nawabi, BM, MA, MRCS
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and (Eng), FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Orthopaedic Oncology, Royal National Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Ortho-
Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore paedicSurgery,RoyalNationalOrthopaedic
Hospital,Stanmore
Mr Zaher Dannawi,FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Spinal Fellow, Royal National Orthopaedic Mr Andrew ‘Fred’ Robinson, BSc, FRCS
Hospital, Stanmore (Orth)
ConsultantFootandAnkleSurgeon,Cam-
Miss Deborah M. Eastwood FRCS
bridge University NHS Trust, Cambridge
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal
National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore Mr Ben Rudge, FRCS (Tr &Orth)
Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Ortho-
Mr Dennis Edwards, FRCS (Orth)
paedic Surgery, Whittington Hospital,
ConsultantOrthopaedicSurgeon,Cambridge
London
University NHS Trust, Cambridge
Mr Nashat Ahmad Siddiqui, FRCS (Tr &
Mr RussellHawkins, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Orth)
Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Ortho-
Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Ortho-
paedicSurgery,RoyalNationalOrthopaedic
paedicSurgery,RoyalFreeHospital,London
Hospital, Stanmore
Mr John A. Skinner, FRCS (Orth)
MissDeborahS.Higgs,MBBS,FRCS(Tr&
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal
Orth)
National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
Consultant Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon,
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, MrElliotSorene,MBBS,FRCS(Tr&Orth),
Stanmore EDHS
Consultant Orthopaedic and Hand Sur-
Mr Maxim Horwitz, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
geon, University College London Hospital,
Locum Consultant Orthopaedic and Hand
London
Surgeon, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial
College Healthcare NHS Trust, London Mr Kesavan Sri-Ram, BSc, MRCS (Eng),
FRCS (Tr &Orth)
Mr Phil Kerr, FRCS
Senior Arthroplasty Fellow, Wycombe
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Lister
Hospital, Wycombe and Royal National
Hospital, Stevenage
Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore
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