Gastroenterology

1. The commonest cause of chronic relapsing pancreatitis is:

2. Auto-vagotomy may be observed in:

3. The Kayser-Fleischer (KF) ring is:

4. Which of the following does not give rise to haematemesis?

5. Acute pancreatitis is not associated with:

6. Features of Mallory-Weiss syndrome comprise all except:

7. Tropical sprue may be associated with all except:

8. Which organ does not move at all with respiration?

9. Which is true regarding Vincent’s angina?

10. Intestinal lymphangiectasia is characterised by all except:

11. The commonest cause of upper GI bleeding in an alcoholic is:

12. Achalasia cardia gives rise to all except:

13. What is true about Weil’s disease?

14. Aerophagia is commonly found in all except:

15. Which one of the following originates from non-beta islet cell tumour of the pancreas?

16. Ulcerative colitis involves the rectal mucosa in:

17. Cholangiocarcinoma may be associated with:

18. Hepatic amoebiasis is associated with all except:

19. Extraintestinal amoebiasis may involve all except:

20. All of the following may be the aetiology of Budd-Chiari syndrome except:

21. Elevation in 5-HIAA (5 hydroxy-indole acetic acid) in urine is found in all except:

22. Mid-zonal necrosis of liver is caused by:

23. Gum hypertrophy is not a feature of:

24. All of the following produce “sub-total villous atrophy’ except:

25. Acute pancreatitis may eventually lead to all of the following except:

26. Crohn’s disease may produce all of the following except:

27. Among the following drugs, which one is thought to be the safest in pregnancy?

28. Manometric study of the lower oesophagus is important in all except:

29. Lactose intolerance with lactase deficiency may be present in all except:

30. All are recognised complications of acute pancreatitis except:

31. Upper GI bleeding, angioid streaks in retina and yellowish skin papules indicate:

32. Portal hypertension associated with soft liver suggests:

33. Regarding haematochezia, which one is false?

34. Regarding H. pylori, which statement is false?

35. All of the following produce invasive diarrhoea except:

36. Which part of the colonic carcinoma is very easily overlooked?

37. Regarding cimetidine, all of the following are true except:

38. All of the following protozoa! infections produce diarrhoea in a patient of AIDS except:

39. Pneumaturia is an established feature of:

40. Which of the following primaries is uncommonly associated with bony metastasis?

41. Major organ responsible for the removal of gastrin is:

42. Which of the following is not effective to eradicate H. pylori?

43. The best single diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis is:

44. Which vitamin deficiency is commonly seen in Crohn’s disease?

45. Minimal free fluid in the abdomen that can be picked up by ultrasonography is:

46. One of the earliest manifestations of cystic fibrosis is:

47. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is classically diagnosed by:

48. ‘String sign’ in Crohn’s disease is due to:

49. The causative agent of tropical sprue is:

50. Which of the following has the highest acid secretory effect?