Gastroenterology

1. Botulism may be associated with all of the following except:

2. Serum alkaline phosphatase level may be increased in all except:

3. Hepatic rub may be found in:

4. All are characteristic features of Wilson’s disease except:

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

6. Michaelis-Gutmann bodies are found in:

7. Anti-LKM1 antibodies (liver-kidney microsomes) are seen in infection with:

8. If an intestinal biopsy is not possible, the diagnosis of Whipple’s disease can be made by:

9. Which of the following is false regarding Gaucher’s disease?

10. Passage of a bolus of food through the oesophagus is the function of:

11. The lower oesophageal mucosa ring (Schatzki ring) is:

12. Which of the following bile acids is virtually absent in advanced cirrhosis of liver?

13. Which one is false regarding irritable bowel syndrome?

14. All of the following may be associated with hypoglobulinaemia except:

15. Characteristics of anorexia nervosa include all except:

16. Carbenoxolone sodium may be associated with all of the following features except:

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

18. Commonest cause of antral gastritis is:

19. Normally in health, the venous flow in abdominal superficial veins is:

20. Chronic active hepatitis may have all the following features except:

21. Which of the following surgical procedures in peptic ulcers most commonly give rise to recurrent ulceration?

22. The classical triad in carcinoid syndrome is:

23. Diabetic diarrhoea may be encountered in the presence of:

24. Commonest organism causing pyogenic liver abscess is:

25. All of the following can be associated with obstructive jaundice except:

26. Crohn’s disease is caused by:

27. Symptoms of carcinoma of the left colon include all except:

28. Acute pancreatitis is not associated with:

29. Venous prominence present in the upper abdomen with direction of flow towards pelvis suggests:

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

31. All of the following are true regarding right-sided colonic carcinoma except:

32. Hour-glass stomach is usually produced by:

33. What is true about Weil’s disease?

34. Chronic gastritis may be associated with all except:

35. All of the following are true regarding Whipple’s disease except:

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

37. The most reliable method of measuring steatorrhoea is:

38. Saint’s triad is the presence of gallstones, hiatal hernia and?

39. The commonest cause of colonic obstruction is:

40. All of the following are true regarding acute mesenteric vascular occlusion except:

41. A patient with severe malabsorption having fever, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, sacroiliitis and increased skin pigmentation is probably suffering from:

42. Regarding ischaemic colitis, which one is true?

43. Aerophagia is commonly found in all except:

44. In HBV infection, which serological maker is present in the ‘window period’ as evidence of recent HBV infection:

45. Raspberry tongue is found in:

46. Regarding carcinoma of oesophagus, all are true except:

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

48. Oral mucous membrane may be affected in all except:

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

50. Macroglossia is not found in: