CPSP IMM Surgery MCQs

Splenectomy is surgical removal of the spleen, increasing long-term risk from encapsulated bacteria.

Damage-control surgery is abbreviated surgery to control bleeding and contamination in a physiologically unstable trauma patient.

Coagulative necrosis is a pattern of cell death with preserved tissue architecture, typical of ischaemia in solid organs except brain.

Caseous necrosis is a friable cheese-like pattern of necrosis classically associated with tuberculosis.

Granuloma is an organised collection of activated macrophages formed in response to persistent inflammation.

Dysplasia is disordered epithelial growth with cytological atypia that may precede malignancy.

Metaplasia is a reversible replacement of one mature cell type by another better suited to stress.

Virchow triad is endothelial injury, abnormal blood flow and hypercoagulability as major contributors to thrombosis.

Anaplasia is loss of differentiation and cellular organisation in a malignant neoplasm.

Preoperative assessment is systematic evaluation of surgical risk, comorbidity, medicines, airway and planned procedure.

Postoperative atelectasis is collapse of alveoli after surgery, promoted by pain, shallow breathing and immobility.

Deep-vein thrombosis prophylaxis is mechanical or pharmacological measures used to reduce perioperative venous thromboembolism.