Rheumatology

1. All are characteristic features of DLE except:

2. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is:

3. Nodal osteoarthritis is common in:

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

5. Hyperostosis is seen in all except:

6. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is least common in:

7. Polymyalgia rheumatica is not associated with:

8. Aseptic necrosis of bone is not a feature of:

9. Which type of collagen is abundant in bones?

10. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

11. Eosinophilic fasciitis does not give rise to:

12. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

13. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

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

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

16. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

17. Which of the following is usually not a skin lesion of SLE?

18. Which is not used to treat acute gouty arthritis?

19. Myopathy may develop from all except:

20. 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:

21. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

22. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

23. Still’s disease does not give rise to:

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

25. Which of the following conditions is not associated with carpal tunnel syndrome?

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

27. Which of the following usually presents as monoarthropathy?

28. Pseudogout may result from all except:

29. Still’s disease is classically associated with all except:

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

31. In rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid factor is formed against:

32. Raynaud’s phenomenon may be treated by:

33. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

34. Rheumatoid factor in SLE is positive in:

35. Brucella arthritis commonly affects:

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

37. Hereditary angioneurotic oedema is due to:

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

39. Polyarthritis is the affection of more than:

40. Which of the following is false regarding anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody?

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

42. Paget’s disease is not manifested by:

43. ANA is positive in SLE in approximately:

44. All of the following produce mutilated fingers/toes except:

45. Bouchard’s nodes in osteoarthritis are seen in:

46. The commonest metabolic bone disease is:

47. Hyperostosis may be a complication of systemic therapy with:

48. The most effective prophylaxis adopted in gout by:

49. Reiter’s syndrome is not featured by:

50. Forrestier’s disease is associated with: