Download Diplomate in National Board (DNB) 2019 Dec 2019 Dec NEUROSURGERY PAPER I Previous Question Papers
DECEMBER 2019
NEURO SURGERY
PAPER-I
Time: 3 hours NSZ/D/19/21/l
Max. Marksz100
Important Instructions:
Attempt all questions in order.
Each question carries 10 marks.
Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
Answer a// the parts of a single question together.
Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
Draw table/d/agrams/?owcharts wherever appropriate.
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A 20-year?old patient is admitted in the Emergency Department with severe 5+5
traumatic brain injury and associated femur fracture on one side. Discuss the:
a) Evaluation, and
b) Management protocol.
3) Optimal positioning for common approaches in cranial surgery. 5+5
b) Scalp flaps for various approaches.
a) Glasgow Coma Scale and its paediatric equivalent. 5+5
b) Cerebral perfusion pressure as a guide to management of intracranial
pressure.
a) Enumerate common seller and suprasellar lesions and their 5+5
symptomatology.
b) Anatomical basis of visual disturbances in such lesions.
a) Pupillary responses that help localizing lesions at different levels of brain 7+3
in a comatose patient.
b) Ondine?s curse.
a) What are Phakomatoses? 2+4+4
b) Enumerate the common neurocutaneous markers.
C) Neurosurgical implications of neuro?bromatosis.
a) Spontaneous CSF rhinorrhea. 5+5
b) Idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
a) Venous drainage of the brain. 5+5
b) Management of cerebral venous thrombosis.
Methods of achieving haemostasis in Neurosurgery. 10
3) Ethical issues in conducting a study. 5+5
b) Overview of data analysis.
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