MRCS High Yield EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) What is the treatment of palliative colon cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Stents Bypass surgery Diversion stomas What is the treatment of right colon cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Right hemicolectomy with ileo-colic anastomosis <5% leak rate What is the treatment transverse colon cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Extended right hemicolectomy with ileo-colic anastomosis <5% leak rate What is the treatment of splenic flexure colon cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Extended right hemicolectomy with ileo- colic anastomosis
<5% leak rate (better than left hemicolectomy w/ colo-colic:
2-5%) What is the treatment of left colon cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Left hemicolectomy with colo-colon anastomosis 1 / 4
MRCS High Yield EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) 2-5% leak rate What is the treatment of sigmoid colon cancer? - Correct Answers ✅High anterior resection with colo-rectal anastomosis 5% leak rate What is the treatment of upper rectal cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Anterior resection with total mesorectal excision and Colo-rectal anastomosis Likely radiotherapy 5% leak rate What is the treatment of low rectal cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Anterior resection with TME and colo-rectal anastomsis (+/- defunctioning stoma) Likely radiotherapy 10% leak rate 2 / 4
MRCS High Yield EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) What is the treatment of anal verge rectal cancer? - Correct Answers ✅Abdomino-perineal excision of colon and rectum Likely radiotherapy What is Hartmans procedure? - Correct Answers ✅Resection of sigmoid colon with end colostomy How do you manage patients with large bowel obstruction resulting from carcinoma above the peritoneal reflection? - Correct Answers ✅Resection Stenting Defunctioning How do you manage patients with large bowel obstruction from rectal cancer? - Correct Answers ✅*Defunctioning loop colostomy* Then staging What is the level of the inferior phrenic branches? - Correct Answers ✅T12 (paired, parietal) 3 / 4
MRCS High Yield EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) What is the level of the coeliac trunk? - Correct Answers ✅T12 (unpaired, visceral) What is the level of the SMA? - Correct Answers ✅L1 (unpaired visceral) What is the level of the middle suprarenal arteries? - Correct Answers ✅L1 (paired visceral) What is the level of the renal arteries? - Correct Answers ✅L1/L2 (paired visceral) What is the level of the gonadal arteries? - Correct Answers ✅L2 (paired visceral) What is the level of the lumbar arteries? - Correct Answers ✅L1-L4 (paired parietal) What is the level of the IMA? - Correct Answers ✅L3 (unpaired visceral) What is the level of the median sacral artery? - Correct Answers ✅L4 (unpaired parietal)
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