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FRCS Part A VIP Practice Exam — Applied Basic Sciences & Principles of Surgery

FRCS — The FRCS Part A (Intercollegiate MRCS Part A) is administered by the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Ireland; it consists of two 3-hour papers of 180 Single Best Answer questions each, covering Applied Basic Sciences and Principles of Surgery in General, with a standard-set pass mark typically around 60–65%.

29
Questions
180m
Time Limit
65.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 29👑 VIP

A 45-year-old man undergoes a right hemicolectomy. During dissection near the hepatic flexure of the colon, the surgeon inadvertently injures a structure that subsequently causes brisk arterial bleeding from the retroperitoneum. The vessel most likely injured in this scenario is a branch of which named artery?

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