Lymphoedema

Chapter 7 of Volume 3, Skin, Burns & Surgical Principles. Revision notes and examiner-style viva questions with model answers for the FRCS (Plast).

13 viva questions in this chapter

1. You are shown a photograph of a swollen arm. How do you proceed?
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2. How would you classify lymphoedema?
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3. What investigations?
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4. How is it managed without surgery?
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5. What can surgery offer, and how do you decide?
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6. Tell me about LVA.
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7. When would you transfer nodes, and from where?
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8. Which donor site, and what is the risk?
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9. How does fluorescence imaging change what you do?
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10. What about scaffolds — BioBridge?
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11. Would you ever do more than one of these?
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12. Can you prevent it?
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13. When would you debulk?
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