Rheumatology

1. Metacarpophalangeal joints are usually not affected in:

2. Hydroxychloroquine toxicity does not produce:

3. Regarding drug-induced SLE, which is false?

4. All are characteristic features of DLE except:

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

6. Dystrophic calcinosis is classically seen in:

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

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

9. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

10. Multiple myeloma is associated with all of the following except:

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

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

13. Fibromyalgia is characterised by all except:

14. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

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

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

17. Exacerbations of SLE are produced by:

18. Drug-induced SLE is not commonly associated with:

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

20. Gout may be treated by all except:

21. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

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

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

24. Which is not true in pleural disease of rheumatoid arthritis?

25. Brucella arthritis commonly affects:

26. ANA is positive in SLE in approximately:

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

28. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

29. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is:

30. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

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

32. Onion-skin spleen is classically seen in:

33. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

34. Angioneurotic oedema may be treated by:

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

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

37. All are true regarding causes of Dupuytren’s contracture except:

38. Colchicine may be used in all except:

39. Sickle cell anaemia may be complicated by all except:

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

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

42. CREST syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of:

43. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

44. Myopathy may develop from all except:

45. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is least common in:

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

47. Finkelstein’s test is positive in:

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

49. Kawasaki disease is associated with:

50. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is: