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1. What workup is necessary for a gynecomastia patient?
2. What medicines cause gynecomastia? What medicines treat it?
3. What are the surgical principles of gynecomastia excision?
4. Can gynecomastia be treated by liposuction alone?
5. A patient has pectus excavatum and wants a silicone molded implant. How do you do it? What are the complications?
6. What is the surgical treatment of Polands Syndrome? What age do you operate ? Who was Poland?
7. When does one need rib grafts or mesh for a chest wall reconstruction?
8. A patient had a left IMA for a bypass. Is he at increased risk for a sternal infection?
9. What flaps are available for sternal wound infection?
10. How long do patients with a flapped sternal infection need antibiotics?
11. How do you treat the irradiated chest wall?
12. Discuss the anatomy and coverage of a deltopectoral flap.
13. How do you cover a meningomyelocoele?
14. Discuss the reversed lat flap.
15. Discuss methods to repair an abdominal wall fascia defect of 4cm, 8cm, and 12cm.