Head, neck, endocrine and paediatrics

The head

• Laryngeal disease, maintenance of airway and tracheostomy
• Acute and chronic inflammatory ENT disorders
• Foreign bodies in the aero-digestive tract
• Epistaxis
• Benign salivary gland disease
• Salivary gland tumours
• Pharyngeal pouch
• Facial palsy
• The eye - trauma, common infections
• Cancrum oris

Neck and endocrine glands

• Common neck swellings
  • Thyroglossal cysts
  • The solitary thyroid nodule
• Role of surgery in thyroid disease and its complications
  • Thyrotoxicosis
  • Goitre
  • Thyroid neoplasms
  • Thyroiditis
• Parathyroid disease and hypercalcaemia
  • Hypercalcaemia
  • Hyperparathyroidism
• Adrenal disease
  • Adrenal incidentalomas
  • Cushing's syndrome
  • Conn's syndrome
  • Phaeochromocytoma
• Carcinoid tumours
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes
• Secondary hypertension

Paediatric disorders

• Neonatal physiology
• Correctable congenital abnormalities
  • Cleft lip and palate
  • Exomphalos and gastroschisis
  • Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • Oesophageal atresia
  • Neonatal intestinal obstruction
  • Hirschsprung's disease
  • Hypospadias
  • Neural tube defects
  • Hydrocephalus
• Common paediatric surgical disorders
  • Congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
  • Intussusception
  • Necrotising enterocolitis
  • Rectal bleeding in childhood
  • Childhood abdominal masses
  • Choledochal cysts
  • The undescended testis
  • Paediatric hernias
  • Circumcision
  • Neck lumps in children