Rheumatology

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

2. Calcinosis is featured by all except:

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

4. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is:

5. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

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

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

8. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

9. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

10. Angioneurotic oedema may be treated by:

11. Reiter’s syndrome is not featured by:

12. Rheumatoid nodules are characterised by all except:

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

14. Metacarpophalangeal joints are usually not affected in:

15. Rheumatoid arthritis is strongly associated with histocompatibility antigen?

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

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

18. Infliximab is directed against:

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

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

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

22. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

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

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

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

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

27. Inclusion body myositis is characterised by all except:

28. Polyarteritis nodosa is not manifested by:

29. Which organ involvement does not occur in progressive systemic sclerosis?

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

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

32. Seronegative arthropathy is not associated with:

33. Nodal osteoarthritis is common in:

34. Finkelstein’s test is positive in:

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

36. Which bacterium is not associated with reactive arthritis?

37. Rose-Waaler test (RF) is positive in rheumatoid arthritis in:

38. Myopathy may develop from all except:

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

40. Brucella arthritis commonly affects:

41. Raynaud’s phenomenon may be treated by:

42. Example of autoimmune arthritis is:

43. Exacerbations of SLE are produced by:

44. Anti-cytokine therapy is usually not associated with:

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

46. Anti-Jo 1 antibody is diagnostic of:

47. Which is true regarding synovial fluid analysis in osteoarthritis?

48. Behcet’s syndrome is not associated with:

49. Colchicine may be used in all except:

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