PLASTIC AND RECONSRUCTIVE SURGERY FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS PAPER TWO-
2024-2025
What is the main reason for using mineral oil during a procurement of a skin graft using a dermatome?
Minimize Friction
When the surgeon is removing a superficial lesion from a patient what retractor would be used to
retract the skin edges?
Double or single-prong skin hooks
If a burn patient is brought to the OR with an arm greatly charred and distended with cyanotic fingers.
What procedure would you anticipate to be performed?
Escharotomy
What is the most often used suture used in plastic surgery used to achieve a cosmetic closure?
Nylon
What is the name of the congenital duplication of the digits?
Polydactyly
, When performing an open brow lift what instrument would the surgeon use to elevate the periosteum
off of the cranium to the level of the superior orbital rims?
Periosteal elevator
What is the name of the instrument used to cut thin slices of skin for grafting?
Dermatome
A rhytidectomy is performed to rejuvenate ________ of the aging face?
The lower third
What are the four agents used during a tumescent liposuction?
Local anesthetic, epinephrine, Wydase, saline
Reimplantation of a digit begins with what step?
Bone to bone
A patient experiencing painful snapping or locking of the finger or thumb is called?
Trigger finger
When a surgeon is performing a breast augmentation with an implant, the surgeon creates a pocket
under the _________ muscle to receive the implant?
Pectoralis Major
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS PAPER TWO-
2024-2025
What is the main reason for using mineral oil during a procurement of a skin graft using a dermatome?
Minimize Friction
When the surgeon is removing a superficial lesion from a patient what retractor would be used to
retract the skin edges?
Double or single-prong skin hooks
If a burn patient is brought to the OR with an arm greatly charred and distended with cyanotic fingers.
What procedure would you anticipate to be performed?
Escharotomy
What is the most often used suture used in plastic surgery used to achieve a cosmetic closure?
Nylon
What is the name of the congenital duplication of the digits?
Polydactyly
, When performing an open brow lift what instrument would the surgeon use to elevate the periosteum
off of the cranium to the level of the superior orbital rims?
Periosteal elevator
What is the name of the instrument used to cut thin slices of skin for grafting?
Dermatome
A rhytidectomy is performed to rejuvenate ________ of the aging face?
The lower third
What are the four agents used during a tumescent liposuction?
Local anesthetic, epinephrine, Wydase, saline
Reimplantation of a digit begins with what step?
Bone to bone
A patient experiencing painful snapping or locking of the finger or thumb is called?
Trigger finger
When a surgeon is performing a breast augmentation with an implant, the surgeon creates a pocket
under the _________ muscle to receive the implant?
Pectoralis Major
