Surgery EOR Exam – PAEA Blueprint | Comprehensive Practice Questions & Verified Answers 2026/2027

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What are some s/s for colorectal cancer? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
rectal bleeding, tenesmus, iron deficiency anemia, abdominal
mass or pain, weakness, mets to liver and lung, change in stool
quality of caliber [#1 reason for lg bowel obstruction]


__________syndrome is when the stomach contents (usually
sugars) move too rapidly through the small intestines. S/S are
nausea, weakness, sweating, faintness, ocassionally diarrhea. -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Dumping




What predisposes a patient to colorectal cancer? - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Men - rectal cancer; Women - colon cancer; ulcerative
colitis, polyps >40yo, - peak at 70s, famililar polyposis, garner's
syndrome, hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer,
lymphogranuloma venereum

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What are the screening recommendations for colorectal cancer?
At what age should screening begin? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > At age
50 or age 40 for increased-risk patients:
--yearly fecal occult blood test
--flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years
--colonoscopy every 10 years
--double contrast barium enema every 5 years


What are some mild risk factors for colorectal cancer? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > diet, inactivity, obesity, smoking, race, and alcohol




What increased testing should be performed on a high risk
patient? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > genetic blood testing, UC or Chron's >
10 years requires annual screening


Where is the most common site of distal metastases? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > liver




Monitoring of the tumor marker ____ is useful in colorectal
cancer. ________involvement is the most important prognostic
variable. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen);
lymph node involvement

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________is multiple acquired diverticula through the colon. What is
the presentation? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Diverticulosis; LLQ pain,
rectal bleeding, alternating constipation and diarrhea


_______is infection of one or more diverticula...typically from
____obstruction. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Diverticulitis; fecaltih


In diverticulitis, colonoscopy is not recommended. Why? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > possible perforation




What is the acute treatment of diverticulitis? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
medical management -- IVF, bowel rest, IV abx


After 2 hospitalizations from diverticulitis, what is
recommended? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > elective sigmoid colectomy


What is the treatment for a colovesical fistula? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
> colectomy and primary bladder closure




_______is a congenital anomaly -- a remnant of the embryonic
vitelline/omphalomesenteric duct -- located w/in 2 feet of the
ileocecal valve. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Meckel's diverticulum

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What is the Meckel's diverticulum "rule of 2's"? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer
> 2 inches longs, located within 2 feet of the ileocecal valve, 2
times as common in males than females, 2% of the population,
2% symptomatic, 2 types of ectopic tissue -- gastric & pancreatic


For Meckel's diverticulum patients, those presenting with
malabsorption, impaction, perforation etc. are treated how? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > with surgical resection and/or small bowel
resection


What are the three most common causes of a small bowel
obstruction? ABC's - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > A = adhesions
B = bulge (hernias)
C = cancer and tumor


What are the some other causes of a SBO? GIVES BAD CRAMPS -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > gallstone ileus (air in biliary tree),
intussuseption, volvuls, external compression, SMA syndrome
(seen with weight loss), Bezoars (trapped mass), abscesses,
diverticulitis, chrohn's disease, radiation enteritis, annular
pancreas, Meckel's diverticulum, Peritoneal adhesions, stricture


What does the PE show with a SBO? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
distended tympanic abdomen, high pitches bowel sounds --