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1. Define the Gustilo classification of open fractures.
2. What are the signs of a compartment syndrome? How do you measure the pressure? What number is too high? How do you decompress it? Can you get a compartment syndrome in the thigh?
3. For a suspected transection of the femoral, sciatic, tibial, and common peroneal nerves, tell us where to test the muscle and sensory functions. What would be the long-term deformity of each injury? What are the results of repair of these nerves?
4. You do a free fibula to a mandible. What defect will be present in the leg? (J Bone & Joint Surg 1990; 72:129)
5. Discuss the controversy over the timing of free flaps and lower leg trauma.
6. Describe the various methods for bony reconstruction of a tibial defect. Include cancellous grafting, free fibula, Ilizarov lengthening.
7. You need to do a cross leg flap. How do you do it? (Proceedings Royal Soc. Med 1972; 65:2, PRS 1983; 74:843)
8. What is the outcome of leg replants?
9. An 80-year-old patient presents to you with a distal third tib-fib fracture. Should you do a free flap? What is the outcome of lower limb salvage in the elderly? (Clinics in Plastic Surgery, July 1991)
10. Describe the use of lower leg fasciocutaneous flaps. Do they work? Should they be delayed? How should they be designed in the leg?
11. Discuss sclerotherapy in legs for varicose veins.
12. Discuss foot flap options for malleolus, heel, non-weight bearing mid-sole, distal plantar surface and dorsum. (Clinics in Plastic Surgery, October 1996)
13. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the various levels of amputation.
14. Do free flaps work for defects of the foot? (PRS 1985; 75:627)
15. What is the cost of lower limb free flap salvage? (PRS 1992; 89:478)
16. Can your anastomosis be distal to the injury? (PRS 1997; 99:1068)
17. Discuss the use of the tibialis anterior muscle flap.
18. How should a diabetic foot ulcer be treated?