General Surgery Cases & Quizzes

• Fast Five Quiz: Kidney Transplant Rejection Risk and Monitoring How familiar are you with kidney transplant, rejection risk, and monitoring? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, May 19, 2022
• Colorectal Cancer e-Tumor Boards: Case 2: Colorectal Liver Metastases   The case focuses on a 32-year-old man whose colonoscopy showed a non-bleeding mass about 2-3 cm above the anal verge with some symptoms of mild partial obstruction. His staging imaging demonstrates multiple liver lesions, a mid-rectal thickening, and some small pulmonary nodules.
  Medscape, May 18, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: PAOD Signs and Symptoms Can you recognize the signs and symptoms of peripheral arterial occlusive disease? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, May 17, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity and Weight Management How familiar are you with type 2 diabetes? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, May 16, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Treatment Early diagnosis of IPF and the initiation of treatment are essential to improve patient outcomes. Test your knowledge of the methods for treatment with this short quiz.
  Medscape, May 12, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Prostate Cancer Check yourself to see if you know the appropriate screening, diagnostic, and treatment guidelines for prostate cancer.
  Medscape, April 18, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Prostate Cancer Prostate cancer is the most common noncutaneous cancer in men and is the second most common cause of cancer deaths. Do you know what to watch for and best practices? Test yourself with our short quiz.
  Medscape, April 18, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis How much do you know about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, April 18, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Gastric Cancer Management How much do you know about the management of gastric cancer? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, April 06, 2022
• Skill Checkup: Woman With Resected Melanoma in the Cervical Spine A 73-year-old woman presents for follow-up of malignant melanoma. The melanoma was resected in the cervical spine; it was ulcerated with a Breslow depth of 3 mm. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 06, 2022
• NSCLC e-Tumor Boards: Case 3: ALK-Rearranged NSCLC with Brain Metastasis   The third case focuses on a 65-year-old woman with ALK-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer, who had a history of prior stereotactic radiosurgery to a left parietal periventricular metastasis. The Brain Metastasis team discusses treatment management and surgery options.
  Medscape, March 25, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 Management How much do you know about the management of primary hyperoxaluria type 1? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, March 04, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 Screening and Diagnosis Are you familiar with the screening and diagnosis of primary hyperoxaluria type 1? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, March 04, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 Signs and Symptoms Are you familiar with the signs and symptoms of primary hyperoxaluria type 1? Test your knowledge with this this quick quiz.
  Medscape, March 04, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 How familiar are you with primary hyperoxaluria type 1? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, March 04, 2022
• A 37-Year-Old Woman With Multiple Fibroadenomas A 37-year-old woman presents to a breast clinic with a 5-year history of fibroadenomas. Nine years later, she experiences inversion of the right nipple. What's the diagnosis?
  Medscape, March 01, 2022
• Skill Checkup: Man With Abdominal Pain, Tenesmus, and Diarrhea A 46-year-old man presents with moderate abdominal pain, tenesmus, and bloody diarrhea four to six times per day, including nocturnal bowel movements. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, February 16, 2022
• 5-Month-Old Rushed to the ED for Severe Abdominal Distention The parents of a 5-month-old boy rush him to the emergency department because of severe abdominal distention. Can you make the diagnosis?
  Medscape, February 08, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: The Recurrence Risks for Breast Cancer How much do you know about the recurrence risks for breast cancer? Test your knowledge with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, February 08, 2022
• Fast Five Quiz: High-Risk Assessment of Early Breast Cancer Do you know the key aspects of risk assessment and their implications in early breast cancer? Test yourself with this quick quiz.
  Medscape, February 02, 2022