ENT

Question 1

What are complications of Group A strep tonsillitis?

Which of these does early treatment prevent?

Answer 1

Acute rheumatic fever (fever, arthritis, pancarditis), Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
Only rheumatic fever is prevented by penicillin treatment

Question 2

What is the cause of malignant otitis externa?

Answer 2

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Question 3

What is Bell’s palsy caused by?

Answer 3

CNVII palsy

Question 4

What does Zoster reactivation in geniculate ganglion lead to?

Answer 4

Ramsay-Hunt syndrome - shingles in CNVIII region

Question 5

Buzzword - feeling of fullness in the ear

Answer 5

Meniere’s disease

Question 6

What does bilateral vestibular schwannoma in a child suggest?

Answer 6

Neurofibromatosis Type 2

Question 7

What may be added to antibiotic treatment for severe tonsillitis?

Answer 7

Steroids

Question 8

What is pain when drinking alcohol a sign of?

Answer 8

Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Question 9

How does a pharyngeal pouch present?

Answer 9

Dysphagia, aspiration, chronic cough

Commonly in older men

Question 10

When does a cystic hygroma present?

Answer 10

First 2 years of live

Question 11

What is the commonest cause of acute otitis media?

Answer 11

Haemophilus influenza

Question 12

What is the commonest cause of otitis externa?

Answer 12

Staph aureus