AVAS 2019 Quickshot B

1. A patient who is 65 years old came into the office with a 1 cm squamous cell lesion. The accepted treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers is:

Watch and wait

Complete surgical excision

Imiquimod

Cryotherapy

2. The patient is a 49yo man with hematochezia without significant family or medical history. Which of the following does not meet the criterion for transanal local excision?

Tumor <3cm in size

<30% circumference of bowel

Within 8cm of anal verge

T2 lesion

3. At what level Albumin-Bilirubin (ALBI) grade is associated with increase 30-day mortality?

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

ALBI is not associated with increased 30-day mortality

4. Additional primary malignancy in veterans with colorectal cancer

Rarely occurs

Occurs more often in veterans than non-veteran survivors

Occurs only in veterans with proven Lynch syndrom

Occurs less often in veterans than non-veteran survivors

5. The US detection rate of iliac artery aneurysms in this study was:

0.2%

1%

5%

50%

6. The following is a predictor of patients undergoing Laparoscopic colectomy at the Dallas VA compared to the open approach.

Male Gender

BMI

Age

Black Race

Avas 2019 Quickshot B