ABSITE Learning competency checks Exam
Questions with complete and Accurate
Answers Latest version 2024/2025
During third and fourth branchial remnant excision, what else is
usually removed? - correct answer thyroid lobectomy or
superior pole resection based on extent of cyst
During first branchial remnant excision, what is reflected or
sometimes also removed? - correct answer superficial lobe of
parotid gland
What is CAH and its defect? - correct answer Congenital
adrenal hyperplasia
- 21 hydroxylase deficiency
- leads to INCREASED 17-OH progesterone (this decreases
cortisol and increases salt wasting)
Iodine 131 MIBG localizes what? - correct answer Adrenal
medulla and chromafin tissue uptake this.
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
Localize aldosteronoma - correct answer adrenal vein
sampling
Localize gastrinoma - correct answer somatostatin receptor
scintigraphy
Localize insulinoma - correct answer EUS
, Formula for sodium osmolarity - correct answer 2Na +
Gluc/18+urea/2.8
High levels of what hormone in medullary thyroid cancer -
correct answer calcitonin
What three vessels drain into the Left renal vein? - correct
answer - left adrenal vein (superior)
- left gonadal vein (inferior)
- left lumbar vein
(posterior)
Marker for short term nutritional status - correct answer pre-
albumin.
- half life of 24-48 hours.
- more reliable during acute inflammatory process
Marker of long term nutritional status - correct answer
albumin
- half life of 21 days.
- less reliable during acute inflammatory process.
- negative acute phase reactant
Persistent hemothorax treatment? - correct answer VATS
washout to prevent fibrothorax.
(CT scan shows hemothorax for >1/3 pleural space)
Questions with complete and Accurate
Answers Latest version 2024/2025
During third and fourth branchial remnant excision, what else is
usually removed? - correct answer thyroid lobectomy or
superior pole resection based on extent of cyst
During first branchial remnant excision, what is reflected or
sometimes also removed? - correct answer superficial lobe of
parotid gland
What is CAH and its defect? - correct answer Congenital
adrenal hyperplasia
- 21 hydroxylase deficiency
- leads to INCREASED 17-OH progesterone (this decreases
cortisol and increases salt wasting)
Iodine 131 MIBG localizes what? - correct answer Adrenal
medulla and chromafin tissue uptake this.
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
Localize aldosteronoma - correct answer adrenal vein
sampling
Localize gastrinoma - correct answer somatostatin receptor
scintigraphy
Localize insulinoma - correct answer EUS
, Formula for sodium osmolarity - correct answer 2Na +
Gluc/18+urea/2.8
High levels of what hormone in medullary thyroid cancer -
correct answer calcitonin
What three vessels drain into the Left renal vein? - correct
answer - left adrenal vein (superior)
- left gonadal vein (inferior)
- left lumbar vein
(posterior)
Marker for short term nutritional status - correct answer pre-
albumin.
- half life of 24-48 hours.
- more reliable during acute inflammatory process
Marker of long term nutritional status - correct answer
albumin
- half life of 21 days.
- less reliable during acute inflammatory process.
- negative acute phase reactant
Persistent hemothorax treatment? - correct answer VATS
washout to prevent fibrothorax.
(CT scan shows hemothorax for >1/3 pleural space)
