It's All Lies & Statistics
Re-Gifter (Transplant)
Shrinkage (or small remnants)
Necking
That's Mixed Up
For the Happy Hearted
200
The statistical test you would use to compare the number of male and female graduating residents who passed the American Board of Surgery exam.
What is a Chi-squared test?
200
The accepted rate of hepatic artery thrombosis after liver transplant.
What is 1-3%?
200
A Meckel’s diverticulum represents the persistence of this embryologic structure.
What is the vitelline or omphalomesenteric duct?
200
This is the initial imaging modality of choice for a neck mass
What is ultrasound?
200
Mix up this Mick Jagger band with nephrolithiasis.
What the “Rolling Kidney Stones”?
200
This is the first-line agent for the treatment of symptomatic sinus bradycardia.
What is atropine?
400
The statistical test you would use to see if there is a statistical difference between mean ABSITE scores of academic and community hospital-based residents.
What is t-test?
400
The most common indication for liver transplantation in the U.S.
What is hepatocellular carcinoma?
400
This is the most common primary malignancy of the veriform appendix.
What is a carcinoid tumor?
400
Normal appearing thyroid tissue found on ultrasound guided FNA of a neck node is indicative of this.
What is metastatic thyroid cancer?
400
This “Diehard” actor’s circulatory anastomosis in the brain.
What is the “Circle of Bruce Willis”?
400
The presence of “saw tooth” waves on an ECG signifies this rhythm.
What is atrial flutter?
600
Beware the cell size! Traditionally used when one of the cells in a 2 by 2 contingency table to compare proportions is less than 5.
What is a Fisher’s Exact Test?
600
After total pancreatectomy and islet cell transplantation, this percentage of patients are insulin free at 1 year
What is 35%?
600
The median umbilical ligament is a remnant of this structure.
What is the urachus?
600
This is the operation for the most common midline congenital neck mass.
What is the Sistrunk operation to excise a thyroglossal duct cyst?
600
It would be unfortunate if this band known for “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” experienced the DSM-IV disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of intense irrational fear.
What is “Panic! Disorder at the Disco”?
600
The left anterior descending artery feeds the anterior wall of the left ventricle as well as the anterior two thirds of this structure.
What is the interventricular septum?
800
When medians are more appropriate than means and you want to compare 2 independent groups, consider using this test.
What is the Mann-Whitney U test?
(or Wilcoxon Rank Sum test)
800
One of the two biggest problems with bladder drainage after pancreas transplantation.
What is metabolic acidosis or cystitis?
800
This ligament is the remnant of the umbilical vein.
What is the falciform ligament or ligamentum teres?
800
This is the common name for a neck chemodactoma, a nonchromaffin paraganglionoma glomus tumor of the neck.
What is a carotid body tumor?
800
You might sing this version of Ace of Base’s most famous song when describing ecchymosis of the flanks connoting retroperitoneal hemorrhage.
What is “I Saw the Grey Turner Sign”?
800
This class 3 anti-arrhythmic works by prolongation of the re-polarization phase of the cardiac cycle. It resembles thyroxine chemically which may explain its anti-thyroid effects via the Wolff-Chaikoff effect.
What is amiodorone?
1000
When comparing 2 or more groups, this statistical test of nonparametric data will tell you if one group dominates all others, but won’t tell you which one.
What is the Kruskall Wallis test?
(or One-Way ANOVA on ranks)
1000
The percentage of discards after recovery of donor liver allografts in the U.S.
What is 10%?
1000
Ligation of a patent ductus arteriosis was first performed by this surgeon.
Who was Robert E. Gross?
1000
These structures form the borders of a central neck dissection.
What are the hyoid superiorly, the carotids laterally, and the sternal notch inferiorly?
1000
This famous Philadelphia Warrior NBA player has never undergone an anterior mediastinotomy that carries his name.
What is the Wilt Chamberlain procedure?
1000
The diagnosis in a patient with an aortic ejection click, harsh systolic ejection murmur, palpable thrill, S4 gallop, split S2, and a carotid thrill.
What is aortic stenosis?