Tuesday, March 4, 2008

SWORD

Ngoo had a busy night, just came back from Termeloh posting in full throttle. He presented a case of a man with worsening chronic left medial maleolus ulcer. ABSI right leg was 0.62 and left leg 0.7.

Q - "Why do you think its venous ulcer?" - Mr Hanafiah
A - "the location of the ulcer is at the medial aspect where the long saphenous runs...." - Ngoo

Q - "How do you treat venous ulcer?" - Mr Hanafiah
A - "Dressing, graduated compression stocking...." - Ngoo

Q - "Why is it call graduated compression stocking?" - Prof Razman

Q - "Does ABSI matter before starting patient on compression stocking?" - Mr Hanafiah

Case 2:
74 year old bed bound after a stroke two days ago presented with obstructive jaundice. Per abdomen no mass palpable. CT scan showed mass at head of pancreas with necrotic centre.

Q - "How does pancreatic mets to the brain look like?" - Prof Ismail

everybody looked puzzled and turn their faces away from Prof.

A - "I also don't know the answer, I just know how to throw question only" - Prof Ismail....... ha.....ha.......ha

Q -
"Why do CT scan?" - Prof Ismail
A -
"The answer for a surgeon is to know resectability" - Prof Ismail

Q - "What are the resectability criteria in pancreatic head of tumour?" - Mr Hanafiah
A - "encasement of portal veins, liver metastasis, size does not matter for head of pancreas......" - Ngoo

"If there is present of only one liver mets, it won't change the management. i.e. palliative stenting" - Prof Razman

Q - "Which stent is better for palliative case?" - Mr Azim


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