Otorhinolaryngology Previous Year Questions

EAR
● Otosclerosis - etiopathology, management (7)
● Presbyacusis (2)
● False -ve Rinne test (3)
● Tympanometry (2)
● Types of tympanograms
● Tuning fork tests (3)
● Oto-barotrauma (2)
● Diagram of right tympanic membrane (2)
● Facial nerve - anatomy & functions (3)
● Bell’s paralysis (2)
● Localization of facial nerve lesion (3)
● Ototoxic drugs (2)
● Causes of otalgia (2)
● Physiology of hearing (2), (4)
● Safe type CSOM - etiopathology, c/f, management, complications (6)
● Complications of unsafe CSOM (7)
● Complications of ASOM (5)
● Secretory otitis media - etiology, c/f, treatment (6)
● Evaluation of deaf child (2)
● Causes of CHL
● Causes of CHL behind intact tympanic membrane; Management of OM with effusion in
5yr old child (7)
● SNHL (3)
● Wax in ear (2)
● Diagram of perilymphatic system
● Cholesteatoma - Pathogenesis; Attico-antral CSOM - etiology, pathology, c/f,
management (investigation & treatment) (8)
● Congenital cholesteatoma
● Causes of vertigo (5)
● Caloric test (3)
● Diagram of medial wall of middle ear (4)
● Diagram of medial & posterior walls of middle ear (2)
● Impedance audiometry (3)
● Otoacoustic emissions (3)
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● Fractures of temporal bone (2)
● Tinnitus (2)
● Hearing aid
● Anatomy of middle ear

NOSE
● Little’s area & Woodruffs plexus (2)
● Squamous cell carcinoma of maxillary sinus - c/f, management (2)
● Nasal polyps - etiology, c/f; FESS - indications, contraindications, complications (7)
● Antrochoanal polyp - c/f, management (2), (4)
● Diagram of nasal septum (2.5), (3)
● Diagram of blood supply of septum (2)
● Atrophic rhinitis - c/f, management (2), (4), (6)
● Vasomotor rhinitis - management (4)
● Fracture nasal bone (4)
● Diagram of lateral wall of nasal cavity after cutting turbinates (2)
● Diagram of osteomeatal complex; FESS for maxillary sinus (2)
● Diagram of view of posterior rhinoscopy (2)
● Septal perforation (4)
● Septal abscess (2)
● Chronic sinusitis - etiology, c/f, management (10); management (3)
● Ethmoid polyp (2)
● Midline granuloma of nose

PHARYNX & ORAL CAVITY

● Angiofibroma (2)
● Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma - c/f, management (4)
● Retropharyngeal & Parapharyngeal spaces - anatomical boundaries; Parapharyngeal
space abscess - etiology, c/f, complications, management (7)
● Parapharyngeal abscess (5)
● Retropharyngeal abscess (2.5); management (3)
● Diagram of parapharyngeal space with contents & relations; Surgical treatment of
parapharyngeal abscess (3)
● Peritonsillar abscess/Quinsy (2), (2.5), (3)
● Adenoids
● Adenoid facies (3)
 ● Submucous fibrosis (2), (4)
● Classify deep neck spaces; Retropharyngeal abscess - etiology, c/f, complications,
management (7)
● Chronic retropharyngeal abscess (2)
● Pharyngeal pouch (2)
● Tonsillolith (2)
● Submandibular space infection - causes, treatment (2)
● Tongue-tie (2)

LARYNX & TRACHEA

● Benign tumors of larynx (3)
● Tracheotomy (2)
● Physiology of larynx
● Functions of tracheostomy (2)
● Tracheostomy - indications, complications, postoperative management (6)
● Postoperative care of tracheostomy (2)
● Supra-glottic carcinoma - etiology, c/f, investigations, management; Vocal
rehabilitation after total laryngectomy (6)
● Functions of larynx (2)
● Vocal nodules (2)
● Rehabilitation of laryngectomy (2)
● Laryngomalacia (2)
● Diagram of indirect laryngoscopy (2)
● Left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy
● Nerve supply of larynx (2), (3)
● Foreign body bronchus (4)
● Causes of hoarseness of voice; Glottic carcinoma - investigation, management (10)
● Aute epiglottitis (3)
● Juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis

OESOPHAGUS
● Plummer Vinson’s syndrome (2), (3)/Paterson-Brown-Kelly syndrome - c/f,
management (4)
● Dysphagia (3)
● Causes of dysphagia; Management of 50y pt with dysphagia from 3mo (8)
● Globus hystericus (2)
● Achalasia cardia (2)
 ● Management of corrosive poisoning/corrosive oesophageal burns (2)

CLINICAL METHODS & SURGERY

● Lateral neck swelling - dd (4)
● Diagram of neck triangles; Midline neck swellings - dd (4)
● Tonsillectomy - indications, contraindications, control of post-operative reactionary &
secondary bleeding (3)

RECENT ADVANCES
● Clinical manifestations of AIDS related to ENT (4)