Rheumatology

1. Paget’s disease is not manifested by:

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

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

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

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

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

7. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

8. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

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

10. Terminal interphalangeal joint is classically involved in:

11. CREST syndrome is diagnosed by the presence of:

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

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

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

15. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

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

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

18. Hydroxychloroquine toxicity does not produce:

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

20. Syndesmophytes are seen in all except:

21. Clutton’s joint is characteristic of:

22. Brucella arthritis commonly affects:

23. Which type of collagen is abundant in bones?

24. Infliximab is directed against:

25. Rheumatoid arthritis is strongly associated with histocompatibility antigen?

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

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

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

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

30. Temporal arteritis is featured by all except:

31. Polymyalgia rheumatica is not associated with:

32. Ocular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis usually do not include:

33. The most effective prophylaxis adopted in gout by:

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

35. Churg-Strauss syndrome commonly manifests as:

36. Anti-RNP antibody is diagnostic of:

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

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

39. Which is a recognised pulmonary complication of SLE?

40. Behcet’s syndrome is not associated with:

41. Colchicine may be used in all except:

42. Hands of scleroderma may classically reveal all except:

43. Heberden’s node is seen in:

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

45. Anti-Jo 1 antibody is diagnostic of:

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

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

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

49. Lupus nephritis is treated by all except:

50. Myopathy may develop from all except: