Treacher Collins Syndrome

Chapter 12 of Volume 2, Head, Neck & Craniofacial. Revision notes and examiner-style viva questions with model answers for the FRCS (Plast).

13 viva questions in this chapter

1. Please describe this photograph.
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2. Tell me about the genetics.
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3. The mother asks whether this will happen again. She and her husband are both unaffected and the gene test on the baby found a new TCOF1 change. What do you tell her?
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4. They saw it on the twenty-week scan. What would have been visible?
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5. Where does Treacher Collins sit in the Tessier classification?
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6. Take me through the relevant embryology.
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7. A baby is born with Treacher Collins and is obstructing on the neonatal unit. What do you do?
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8. Would you distract the mandible or do a tracheostomy?
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9. When would you close the palate, and does that affect the airway?
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10. What is the hearing loss and how do you manage it?
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11. When and how would you reconstruct the zygoma?
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12. And the eyelid?
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13. Set out the plan from birth to maturity.
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