Rheumatology

1. Nodal osteoarthritis is common in:

2. Classically which of the following does not produce polyarthralgia?

3. Kawasaki disease is associated with:

4. The commonest metabolic bone disease is:

5. CREST syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of:

6. All are characteristic features of DLE except:

7. Pseudogout may result from all except:

8. Hereditary angioneurotic oedema is due to:

9. Rheumatoid arthritis is strongly associated with histocompatibility antigen?

10. Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a combination of SLE, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis and  __?

11. Subcutaneous nodules are seen in all except:

12. Colchicine may be used in all except:

13. Avascular necrosis of bone is a recognised association in all except:

14. All are extra-articular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis except:

15. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

16. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

17. Which organ involvement is not included within the classic triad of Wegener’s granulomatosis?

18. Pseudogout (chondrocalcinosis) is associated with the deposition of crystals of:

19. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

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

21. Which of the following is commonly involved in Paget’s disease?

22. Calcinosis is featured by all except:

23. Which of the following is the specific antibody for SLE?

24. Which does not produce an erythematous butterfly-like lesion on face?

25. Behcet’s syndrome is not associated with:

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

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

28. If a patient with scleroderma with Raynaud’s phenomenon immerses their hand in cold water, the hand will:

29. Metacarpophalangeal joints are usually not affected in:

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

31. Which of the following is recognised extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis?

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

33. Raynaud’s phenomenon may be treated by:

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

35. Cytoid (colloid) bodies in the retina are recognised finding in:

36. Extra-articular manifestations in rheumatoid arthritis are commonly associated with:

37. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

38. ‘Pathergy’ is characteristic of:

39. Which of the following is not a side effect of penicillamine?

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

41. Churg-Strauss syndrome commonly manifests as:

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

43. Exacerbations of SLE are produced by:

44. Which of the following is not a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD)?

45. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

46. HLA-B27 tissue typing is not associated with:

47. Which of the following usually presents as monoarthropathy?

48. Onion-skin spleen is classically seen in:

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

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