- What is the most common:
- Type of melanoma?
- Superficial spreading
- Type of breast cancer?
- Infiltrating ductal
- Site of breast cancer?
- Upper outer quadrant
- Vessel involved with a bleeding duodenal ulcer?
- Gastroduodenal artery
- Cause of common bile duct obstruction?
- Secondary Choledocholithiasis
- Cause of small bowel obstruction (SBO) in adults in the United States?
- Postoperative peritoneal adhesions
- Cause of SBO in children?
- Hernias
- Cause of emergency abdominal surgery in the United States?
- Acute appendicitis
- Electrolyte deficiency causing ileus?
- Hypokalemia
- Cause of blood transfusion resulting in death?
- Clerical error (wrong blood types)
- Site of distant metastasis of sarcoma?
- Lungs (hematogenous spread)
- Position of anal fissure?
- Posterior
- Acute pancreatitis?
- Biliary / Gallstones
- Chronic pancreatitis?
- Alcohol
- Cause of large bowel obstruction?
- Colon cancer
- Cause of fever less than 48 postoperative hours?
- Atelectasis
- Bacterial cause of urinary tract infection (UTI)?
- Escherichia coli
- Abdominal organ injured in blunt abdominal trauma?
- Liver
- Benign tumor of the liver?
- Hemangioma
- Malignancy of the liver?
- Metastasis
- Pneumonia in the ICU?
- Gram-negative bacteria
- Cause of epidural hematoma?
- Middle meningeal artery injury
- Cause of lower GI bleeding?
- Upper GI bleeding
- Cancer in females?
- Breast cancer
- Cancer in males?
- Prostate cancer
- Type of cancer causing DEATH in males and females?
- Lung cancer
- Cause of free peritoneal air?
- Perforated peptic ulcer disease
- Cause of death ages 1 to 44?
- Trauma
- Type of melanoma?

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