Thorax card : important SAQs for 1st professional MBBS examination of Bangladesh

Thorax     SAQ

Thoracic wall:

1. Give the venous drainage of thoracic wall. Give the branches of internal thoracic artery.

2. Draw & label a typical intercostal space.

3. What is external intercostal membrane.

4. Draw & label a typical intercostal nerve. How it differs from a spinal nerve.

5. Give the steps of dissection of a typical intercostal space. List the number of typical         

    intercostal space & why they are called typical? (2+1+1)-osmani 1^st term

6. Draw & label the formation & branches of a typical intercostal nerve. List the muscles of forced

   inspiration & expiration.(3+1) 

7. Discuss typical intercostals nerve. Give its functional component. -5+2

8. Give the boundary of thoracic inlet. What is supra-pleural membrane, (2+2)

Heart & pericardium:

1. What is pericardium. Mention its different layer’s & their development.-3

2. Write a short description of interior of right atrium July-06 What is probe patency test? 3+1

 3. What are the different parts of the interventricular septum. Give its source of development.

      1+2

 4. Draw & label arterial supply of heart.-2(J-07, July-06) Give the origin, course & branches of left coronary artery. 4.

5. What do you mean by end artery?-1 what do you mean by functional end artery? Give examples and clinical importance.

6. S/N: a) Pericardial sinus Base of the heart-2 Fallot’s tetralogy-1.5

7. Give the anatomy of the base of the heart. 3

    or Give the formation of the base of the heart. Mention its important relations.

8. Mention development of interatrial septum.-3

9. Draw & label junction tissues of the heart.-2 What are the Junctional tissues of the heart?  Mention their location. 1+2

10. Define conducting system of the heart. Name its components & arterial supply.1+4

11. Write down pericardial sinuses with their clinical importance. 4

12. What is dextrocardia? Give embryology basis of its formation. (1+2)

13. Write about structure of Trabeculae carnea, septomarginal crest and infundibulum. All Trabeculae carnea & papillary muscle.-5

 14. Draw and label venous supply of the heart

 15. Mention the development of right atrium. -2

16. Enumerate the different septal defects of heart.-2

17. Draw & label different parts of primitive heart tube. -2

Lung & pleura:

1. Define bronchopulmonary segment. 1

    Draw & label bronchopulmonary segment of R/L+lung.

2. Write the histological features of lung. -3

3. Give the nerve supply of lung with their effects. -1

4. Define pleura. Mention its different parts. Give their source of development. -3 or write

    about pleura.

5. Give the layers of respiratory membrane. -3) Name the cells you will find in the  

    alveoli & give their function.

6. S/N-  a) pleural recess.

           b) Root of the lung.

7. Give relation of apex of right lung. -3

8. What do you mean by respiratory portion of lungs. Give its components. -3

9. What is hyaline membrane disease? -1

10. Give the visceral relations on the mediastinal surface of left lung. -3

11. What is pleural recess? Give its formation & clinical importance-3

12. Name the different phase of development of the lung-3

13. Draw & label the different segments of the bronchial tree. Give the lining epithelium of their

      different segments. -2+2

14. Which bronchus is more susceptible to lodgments of inhaled foreign bodies? Explain why?

15. What is pleura? Write different parts of parietal pleura & mention their development & nerve

      supply.-4

Mediastinum:

1. Define mediastinum. Give the boundary & contents of posterior mediastinum/superior   

    mediastinum.(1+3)

Others:

1. Pump handle & bucket handle movement.

2. Superior vena cava.