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University Question List (2018-2003)

E.N.T

EAR
 Essays
1. CSOM: Describe the aetiopathogenesis, clinical features, investigations and treatment of the
safe type of chronic suppurative otitis media/CSOM. Describe the aetiopathogenesis, clinical
features and management of the unsafe type of CSOM. Classify complications and
Enumerate its intracranial complications. Describe the complications of CSOM. Write in
detail about petrositis. Discuss lateral sinus thrombosis and its management***
2. Cholesteatoma: Define cholesteatoma. Describe its aetiopathogenesis, clinical features and
management. Add a note on its complications. Add a note on its various theories. Discuss
the management of a patient with attico antral disease. ***
3. Acute suppurative otitis media/ASOM: aetiopathogenesis, clinical features, and
management**
4. Otitis Media with effusion: define, discuss aetiopathogenesis, clinical features, and
management in children, add a note on the possible complication of cholesteatoma**
5. Otosclerosis: Define, aetiopathogenesis, clinical features, and management of
otosclerosis**
6. Unilateral Conductive Deafness: enumerate the causes, discuss the management of otitis
media with effusion, add a note on masked mastoiditis.*
7. Tympanoplasty: describe the pre-requisities, classify the various types*
8. Acute Coalescent Mastoiditis: describe the clinical features, investigations, and
management*

 Short Notes
1. Tympanic membrane
2. Acute otitis Media: Management*
3. Traumatic perforation of tympanic membrane*
4. Petrositis*
5. Surgical anatomy of the middle ear
6. Medial wall of the middle ear
7. Facial recess*
8. Mastoid antrum**
9. McEwen’s triangle
10. Ossicles of the middle ear
11. Luc’s Abscess*
12. Fallopian Canal*
13. Caloric test/caloric reflex test/vestibular caloric stimulation*
14. Tuning fork tests**
15. Rinne’s test
16. Weber’s test*
17. Pure tone audiogram*
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18. Fistula test

19. Otitis externa
20. Malignant otitis externa****
21. Keratosis obturans*
22. Bezold’s abscess
23. Otosclerosis/otospongiosis*
24. Endolymphatic hydrops/Ménière’s disease
25. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo/BPPV
26. Noise-induced hearing loss/NIHL*
27. Hearing aids***
28. Otoacoustic emission*
29. Complications of mastoid surgery
30. Internal ear
31. Organ of Corti
32. Physiology of hearing/theories of hearing
33. Physiology of equilibrium
34. ABC test
35. Vestibular function tests
36. Furunculosis
37. Otomycosis
38. Foreign body in ear/wax in ear/maggots in ear/bronchus of a child***
39. Acute suppurative otitis media*
40. Gradenigo’s syndrome***
41. Labyrinthitis*
42. Lateral sinus thrombosis**
43. Secretory otitis media/glue ear/otitis media with effusion/OME*
44. TB otitis media
45. Syphilitic otitis media
46. Facial nerve
47. Facial palsy in CSOM*
48. Bell’s palsy*
49. Benign tumours of the ear
50. Glomus tumours
51. Acoustic neuromas
52. Tinnitus
53. Mastoidectomy
54. Tympanoplasty*
55. Otorrhoea
56. Perichondritis
57. Temporal course of the facial nerve*
58. Middle ear transformer mechanism
59. Masked mastoiditis
60. Temporal bone fractures
61. Cochlear implants****
62. Evaluation of a deaf child*
63. Presbycusis*
64. Middle ear cleft**
65. Referred Otalgia**
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66. Ototoxicitiy**
67. Sensorineural deafness*
68. Lasers in ent practice**
69. Cortical mastoidectomy*
70. Pre-auricular sinus*
71. Temporal lobe abcess*
72. Brain stem evoked response audiometry (BERA)*
73. Macewan’s triangle**
74. Autophony*
75. Sinus Tympani*
76. Impedance audiogram*
77. Eustachian Tube**
78. Cerumen*
79. Styloid Process*

Nose
 Essays
1. Nasal Polyposis: Describe the aetiopathogenesis, clinical features, differential diagnosis,
complications and management of nasal polyposis/sinonasal polyposis**
2. Polyp: Define, outline the differences between antrochoanal and ethmoidal polyps. Describe
the clinical features and management of antrochoanal polyp/recurrent polyp. Describe the
aetiology, clinical features, diagnosis, investigations, and management of ethmoidal polyp.
Add a note on mucociliary blanket of the nose and paranasal sinuses. ****
3. Epistaxis: Enumerate the causes of unprovoked epistaxis in a 14 year old boy. How would
you evaluate and manage such a patient? Mention the causes and outline the management
of epistaxis. Add a note on the importance of Little’s area. Enumerate the causes of
epistaxis. How will you manage epistaxis in a 60 year old man? Discuss management of
epistaxis in a 40 year old male patient with hypertension. ****
4. Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis: Describe the aetiopathogenesis, clinical features and
management of chronic maxillary sinusitis.
5. Acute Maxillary Sinusitis: aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, management*
6. Cancer of the Left Maxilla: Describe the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, investigations
and treatment of cancer of the left maxilla in a 62-year-old man.
7. Deviated nasal septum aetiology, management, complications of septal surgery.
8. Allergic rhinitis: Define, describe aetiology, clinical features, investigations, and treatment,
chronic allergic rhinitis**
9. Atrophic Rhinitis: Define, discuss aetiopathogenesis, clinical features, and management*
10. Fungal infections: Classify the fungal infections of the paranasal sinuses, describe the clinical
features and management of allergic fungal sinusitis.*
11. Middle ear Cleft: Illustrate and describe the anatomy*
12. Misc Essay: Explain the ENT manifestations of AIDS. Describe their management. *

 Short Notes
1. Little’s area**
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2. Young’s Operation*
3. Sphenoid Sinus*
4. Mucociliary blanket of nose*
5. Deviated nasal septum*
6. Maxillary Carcinoma*
7. Antro-choanal polyp****
8. Nasal Polyp*
9. Surgical anatomy of nasal septum*
10. Surgical anatomy of middle meatus/osteomeatal complex***
11. Septal perforation**
12. Septal surgery- complications*
13. Primary atrophic rhinitis******
14. Epistaxis-management****
15. Antral lavage
16. Lateral wall of the nose**
17. Mucociliary blanket of nose
18. Functions of nose
19. Posterior rhinoscopy
20. Septal abscess*
21. Rhinoscleroma
22. Rhinosporidiosis*****
23. Rhinitis caseosa*
24. Ethmoidal polyp*
25. Differential diagnoses and management of nasal polyp
26. Management of nose bleed
27. Maxillary sinus
28. Functions of paranasal sinuses
29. Acute sinusitis*
30. Complications of chronic sinusitis
31. Fractures of middle third of face
32. Nasal packing
33. Caldwell-Luc operation*
34. Polypectomy
35. Rhinolalia
36. CSF rhinorrhoea
37. Acute viral rhinitis
38. Acute diphtherial rhinitis
39. Nasal mycosis
40. Nasal myiasis
41. Functional endoscopic/endonasal sinus surgery/FESS*
42. Submucous resection of septum
43. Rhinolith***
44. Bleeding polyp of nasal septum*
45. Fracture of the nasal bone***
46. Differential diagnosis of unilateral nasal discharge*
47. Killian’s polyp*
48. Diagnostic nasal endoscopy*
49. Tropical nasal decongestant*
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50. Allergic Rhinitis*

Throat
 Essays
1. Chronic Tonsillitis: Describe the aetiopathogenesis, clinical features and management of
chronic tonsillitis. Mention the indications and contraindications of tonsillectomy. Add a
note on its complications.
2. Peritonsillar Abscess: Describe the etiology, clinical features, and management. *
3. Tonsillectomy: Mention the indications and contraindications of tonsillectomy. Add a note
on its complications. Discuss the briefly the management of reactionary hemorrhage
following tonsillectomy.*
4. Stridor: Define stridor. Enumerate the causes of stridor in children. Describe the aetiology,
clinical features, investigations and treatment of laryngeal papillomatosis. Outline the
indications of tracheotomy. Describe in detail the procedure of elective tracheotomy.
Mention the complications of this procedure. How will you investigate hoarseness of voice?
Discuss the management of stridor in children. ******
5. Tracheostomy: Define, indications, postoperative management of tracheostomy,
complications, add a note on the various types of tracheostomy tubes. **
6. Case: Laryngeal Cancer- A 50 year old smoker attends the outpatient department with
complaints of progressive hoarseness of voice of 3 months duration. Discuss the differential
diagnosis. How will you evaluate and manage the case? **
7. Carcinoma of the Larynx: describe the aetiology, clinical features, investigations, and
treatment*
8. Anatomy of the larynx: describe the anatomy and describe the causes of unilateral and
bilateral vocal cord palsy.*
9. White patch: discuss the differential diagnosis of white patch on tonsil and its management*
10. Acute Mastoiditis: Clinical Features, investigations, and management*
11. Carcinoma of Nasopharynx: Describe the clinical features, etiology, and management. *

 Short Notes
1. Rhinolalia clausa
2. Rhinolalia aperta
3. Parathyoird Glands*
4. Peritonsillar abscess/quinsy*****
5. Laryngeal TB
6. Vocal cord nodules/singer’s nodules**********
7. Vocal cord carcinoma*
8. Causes of Stridor in children*
9. Stridor*
10. Laryngeal papillomatosis
11. Benign structures of oesophagus
12. Plummer-Vinson syndrome*
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13. Achalasia cardiae

14. Barium swallow
15. ENT manifestations of AIDS
16. Indications and contraindications, complications for tonsillectomy**
17. Primary hemorrhage
18. Secondary hemorrhage-clinical features and management***
19. Vincent’s angina*
20. Eagle’s Syndrome*
21. Superior constrictor Muscle*
22. Tracheostomy*
23. Indications for tracheotomy*
24. Complications of tracheotomy**
25. Post Tracheostomy Care**
26. Waldeyer’s ring****
27. Tonsils
28. Indirect laryngoscopy structures seen *
29. Direct Laryngoscopy*
30. Acute pharyngitis
31. Acute tonsillitis/follicular tonsillitis
32. Acute diphtherial laryngitis
33. TB tonsil
34. Adenoid facies*
35. Parapharyngeal space
36. Parapharyngeal abscess**
37. Retro pharyngeal abscess**
38. Retropharyngeal space
39. Retropharyngeal abscess
40. Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma*
41. Juvenile Papillomatosis*
42. Leukoplakia of the larynx/oral cavity*
43. Foreign bodies of larynx
44. Vocal cord polyp
45. Hoarseness of voice*
46. Vocal cord palsy and its treatment
47. Foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree*
48. Bronchial Fistula*
49. Deglutition
50. Foreign bodies in the oesophagus
51. Dysphasia/ Dysphagia Lusoria*
52. Branchial cyst
53. Branchial fistula
54. Trotter’s triad*2003
55. Adenoidectomy
56. Sleep apnoea
57. Ludwig’s angina*****
58. Sjögren’s syndrome
59. Oral submucous fibrosis**
60. Ranula**
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61. Pharyngeal Pouch*

62. Thyroglossal cyst****
63. Reactionary hemorrhage-post tonsillectomy hemorrhage***
64. Laryngomalacia*
65. Acute epiglottitis***
66. Crypta Magna*
67. Fossa Rosenmuller*
68. Reinke’s edema**
69. White patch on tonsil**
70. Infectious Mononucleosis*
71. Laryngeal polyp*
72. Mastoid Abscess*
73. Acute Laryngitis*