Rheumatology

1. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

2. Highest incidence of rheumatoid factor (RF) is found in:

3. Raynaud’s phenomenon is not a feature of:

4. Sjogren’s syndrome may be associated with all except:

5. Which of the following is not an extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis?

6. TNF-antagonist used in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis is:

7. HLA B-27 is usually detected in all except:

8. Drug of choice for relieving pain in osteoarthritis is:

9. CREST syndrome is an aggregation of calcinosis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia and __?

10. Brucella arthritis commonly affects:

11. Anti-RNP antibody is diagnostic of:

12. Scleroderma-like lesion may be produced by all except:

13. Inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase is beneficial in the treatment of:

14. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is:

15. Lupus nephritis is treated by all except:

16. Finkelstein’s test is positive in:

17. ‘Pathergy’ is characteristic of:

18. Osteosclerosis of the spine may be seen in all except:

19. Angioneurotic oedema may be treated by:

20. Inclusion body myositis is characterised by all except:

21. Mask-like face is seen in all except:

22. Paget’s disease is not manifested by:

23. A 20-year woman has repeated attacks of myalgia, non-deforming arthralgia, pericarditis and pleural effusion for two years. The laboratory screening test should be:

24. Dystrophic calcinosis is classically seen in:

25. Gout may be treated by all except:

26. Subcutaneous nodules are seen in all except:

27. Fibromyalgia is characterised by all except:

28. ANF is not found in SLE when there is:

29. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

30. Churg-Strauss syndrome commonly manifests as:

31. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is least common in:

32. Polyarthritis is the affection of more than:

33. Which of the following is not associated with active SLE?

34. Penicillamine and colchicine both are used in the treatment of:

35. Rheumatoid arthritis patients confront an increased risk of developing all except:

36. False-positive serological test (VDRL) persisting for 6 months is seen in all except:

37. All of the following indicate poor prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis except:

38. Which of the following is not a recognised complication of SLE?

39. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

40. Which is a recognised pulmonary complication of SLE?

41. Example of autoimmune arthritis is:

42. Polarised light microscopy of synovial fluid in gout shows:

43. Osteomalacia may be produced by therapy with all except:

44. Raynaud’s phenomenon may be treated by:

45. Lyme arthritis is:

46. c-ANCA (antinuclear cytoplasmic antibody) is diagnostic of:

47. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

48. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

49. Progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) may develop in all except:

50. Which of the following usually presents as monoarthropathy?