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Surgery revision checklist for NEET PG, INI-CET & FMGE

Every topic broken into what's actually asked from it. Tick what you've already studied — mark it Shaky if you'd fumble it under exam pressure.

General Surgery

Burns — TBSA and Fluid Resuscitation

4 points

Rule of Nines TBSA — adult vs child body-map trap

INI2016, 2023, 2025 +1

Parkland vs Muir-Barclay — fluid volume and colloid choice

BOTH2017, 2018, 2025

Burn depth assessment and inhalation-injury airway

INI2017, 2020

Severe frostbite cold-injury management

INI2022

Wound Healing and Surgical Site Infection

3 points

Healing by intention and NPWT pressure settings

INI2013, 2024, 2025

Wound contamination class and ASEPSIS/Southampton scores

BOTH2016, 2020, 2023

Burst abdomen — resuture, evisceration and tension-suture trap

BOTH🖼 Image2014, 2016

Laparoscopy and Perioperative Care

5 points

Pneumoperitoneum physiology, gas embolism and lap-chole urine output

INI2015, 2021, 2023

Laparoscopy advantages — delayed electrosurgical burn trap

NEET2023

Daycare surgery admission cause and COVID elective timing

INI2021

WHO checklist item and intraoperative frozen section

INI2015, 2017

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) principle

INI2024

Breast

Breast Conservation and Mastectomy

4 points

BCS absolute vs relative contraindication

INI2022, 2025

BCS components and ER-positive early-stage decision

INI2017, 2023

Breast reconstruction flap choice

NEET🖼 Image2020

Operable lump with dimpling — surgical decision

INI2020, 2024

Breast Cancer Systemic Therapy

4 points

Tamoxifen — conception timing and non-prevented outcome

INI2020, 2022

Her2/neu IHC score requiring FISH confirmation

INI🖼 Image2016, 2017

Liver-metastasis and neoadjuvant-chemo decision

BOTH🖼 Image2013, 2024

Axillary ultrasound nodal detection yield

INI2017

Breast Lump Triple Assessment

2 points

BIRADS category and mammography screening age

BOTH2016, 2021, 2022

Clinical exam technique and most conspicuous cancer sign

INI🖼 Image2018, 2025

Endocrine Surgery

Thyroid Nodule and Goitre Workup

3 points

Solitary thyroid nodule — initial investigation trap

BOTH🖼 Image2014, 2024

Thyroglossal cyst vs toxic goitre swelling

INI🖼 Image2017, 2021

Retrosternal goitre and thyroid examination method

BOTH🖼 Image2019, 2020

Thyroid Carcinoma and FNAC

3 points

FNAC limitation — follicular carcinoma capsular-invasion trap

INI2014, 2016, 2020

Follicular vs papillary carcinoma features and nodal spread

BOTH🖼 Image2014, 2017, 2025

Irradiation risk and pregnancy papillary-carcinoma management

INI2017, 2024

Thyroidectomy Complications

4 points

Recurrent vs external laryngeal nerve injury pattern

INI2020, 2024

Post-op hypocalcemia carpopedal spasm and thyroid storm

BOTH2015, 2018, 2022

Tracheomalacia airway risk and pre-op Lugol iodine

BOTH2021, 2022

Structures spared/removed in modified radical neck dissection

BOTH2017, 2019

Gastrointestinal Surgery

Gastric Carcinoma and Outlet Obstruction

3 points

Gastric cancer features, antral growth, benign-vs-malignant ulcer and refrigeration risk

BOTH2014, 2015, 2019 +1

Occult-bleed anemia and gastric-outlet-obstruction presentation

NEET2015, 2021

Post-gastrectomy vitamin B12 supplementation

NEET2024

Intestinal Obstruction

3 points

Small vs large bowel obstruction — feature and first-organ-examined trap

BOTH2017, 2018, 2020

Adhesive obstruction and obstruction radiology signs

BOTH🖼 Image2012, 2021, 2022

Meckel diverticulum rule-of-2s and SMA syndrome trap

INI2015, 2018

Appendicitis

4 points

Migratory-pain diagnosis and obturator/psoas signs

BOTH🖼 Image2017, 2019, 2025 +1

Appendix positions and preferred pediatric imaging

INI🖼 Image2014, 2023

Gridiron/Rutherford-Morrison incision and appendicular artery

INI2021, 2022

Appendiceal-tip carcinoid — size-based management

NEET2016

Colonic Carcinoma

2 points

Right vs left colon cancer biology and polyposis lesions

INI🖼 Image2021, 2025

Extended hemicolectomy vessel ligation and bowel preparation

INI2016, 2022

Hepatobiliary Surgery

CBD Stones and Cholangitis

3 points

CBD-stone imaging and ERCP indication trap

BOTH2019, 2020, 2021

Reynolds pentad cholangitis and recurrent/retained stones

BOTH2020, 2021

Courvoisier painless-jaundice palpable-mass sign

INI🖼 Image2021, 2022

Bile Duct Injury and Leak

3 points

Strasberg-Bismuth classification of bile-duct injury

BOTH2015, 2020, 2023

Post-cholecystectomy bile leak and Morrison-pouch biloma

INI2017, 2020, 2021

Hepaticojejunostomy biliary-stricture repair outcome

INI2015

Liver Abscess and Hydatid

3 points

Amoebic vs pyogenic liver abscess and perihepatitis

BOTH🖼 Image2014, 2023

Hydatid cyst — Gharbi classification on imaging

NEET🖼 Image2024

Focal liver lesion characterisation on NCCT

INI🖼 Image2022

Trauma and Critical Care

ATLS Primary and Secondary Survey

2 points

Primary vs secondary survey component and low-GCS airway

BOTH2017, 2020, 2024

Trauma transport rules and primary-survey radiograph adjuncts

INI🖼 Image2017, 2022

Tension Pneumothorax

4 points

Hyperresonance and absent breath sounds recognition

BOTH🖼 Image2020, 2021, 2025

Needle decompression site and pathophysiology

INI2012, 2013, 2018

Ventilator/central-line iatrogenic pneumothorax

BOTH🖼 Image2016, 2020, 2024

M-mode barcode/stratosphere sign on ultrasound

INI2013

Abdominal Trauma and FAST

3 points

FAST/eFAST scope, full form and non-detectable injury

INI2013, 2020

Blunt-abdomen imaging decision (FAST vs CT)

BOTH🖼 Image2020, 2021, 2022 +1

Penetrating/seatbelt abdomen and peritonitis management

BOTH🖼 Image2014, 2020, 2022 +1

Head Injury and Raised ICP

3 points

Raised ICP management and anticoagulant scalp bleed

INI2015, 2016, 2020 +1

Lucid interval, herniation and diffuse axonal injury

INI2013, 2014, 2022

Head injury priority with concurrent femur fracture

INI2014

Urology

Urinary Stones and Lithotripsy

3 points

Stone composition and radiolucent vs radiopaque trap

BOTH🖼 Image2015, 2017, 2024 +1

Struvite/Proteus staghorn calculus features

BOTH🖼 Image2017, 2018, 2024

ESWL vs PCNL and ureteric-colic management decision

BOTH2014, 2015, 2024 +1

Renal Cell Carcinoma and Cystic Masses

3 points

Bosniak classification of complex renal cyst

INI🖼 Image2017

RCC management and angiomyolipoma in tuberous sclerosis

BOTH🖼 Image2013, 2020, 2022

Hydronephrosis and obstructive uropathy on urography

NEET🖼 Image2015, 2017, 2022

Prostate Carcinoma

2 points

Gleason grading and PSA workup of prostate carcinoma

BOTH2019, 2020, 2021

Osteoblastic metastasis, PSA monitoring and advanced-disease drugs

INI2012, 2013, 2014

Testicular Tumor and Torsion

3 points

Tumor markers AFP/LDH and seminoma marker exception

INI2018, 2021, 2023 +1

Testicular torsion — Doppler and emergency exploration

BOTH🖼 Image2019, 2024

Undescended testis timing and anorchia confirmation

BOTH2013, 2015, 2016

Cardiovascular and Thoracic

Peripheral Arterial Disease and Buerger

4 points

Intermittent claudication and ABPI necrosis threshold

BOTH2023, 2024, 2025 +1

Critical ischemia, arterial ulcer and femoropopliteal stent

BOTH🖼 Image2018, 2020, 2021

Buerger thromboangiitis obliterans clinical features

BOTH2012, 2017

Aortoiliac Leriche syndrome — buttock claudication

BOTH🖼 Image2016, 2020, 2022

Varicose Veins and Chronic Venous Insufficiency

2 points

CEAP classification from eczema/lipodermatosclerosis stage

BOTH🖼 Image2020, 2021, 2023 +1

Varicose surgery — SFJ ligation and saphenous-nerve injury

BOTH2012, 2022, 2023

Aortic Dissection and Aneurysm

4 points

Stanford type A vs B dissection management

NEET🖼 Image2023, 2024

Abdominal aortic aneurysm — asymptomatic surgery cut-off

NEET2018, 2020

Ruptured AAA — emergency-surgery mortality figure

INI2013

Popliteal and cirsoid aneurysm site trap

NEET2016, 2017

Pressure Sore and Leg Ulcer Identification

2 points

Sacral pressure-sore stage identification

BOTH🖼 Image2024

Arterial vs venous vs trophic leg-ulcer identification

BOTH🖼 Image2020, 2024

Head-Neck, Neuro and Plastic

Brain Tumors and CNS Lesions

3 points

Highly vascular adult CNS tumor — hemangioblastoma

INI2013

Stereotactic radiosurgery and chordoma proton therapy

BOTH2012, 2018

Tuberous sclerosis — periventricular calcification and SEGA

INI2011, 2014

Salivary Gland Tumors

2 points

Pleomorphic adenoma vs Warthin (hot-spot on Tc-99)

BOTH🖼 Image2019, 2022, 2023 +1

Parotidectomy — facial-nerve landmark and marginal mandibular palsy

BOTH2018, 2020

Oral Cavity Cancer

2 points

Oral SCC — biopsy, T staging and adjuvant RT indicator

BOTH🖼 Image2024

Leukoplakia and precancerous jaw-cyst

BOTH🖼 Image2012, 2022

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