Gastroenterology

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

2. Bacillary dysentery can be differentiated from ulcerative colitis by:

3. Congestive gastropathy in portal hypertension is best treated by:

4. High transaminase levels may be found in all except:

5. Mallory-Weiss syndrome is commonly seen accompanying:

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

Burst abdomen commonly occurs on which post-op day of abdominal surgery?
A. 1st day B. 2nd day
C. 3rd day D. 7th day

8. Achalasia cardia gives rise to all except:

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

10. Predominant unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia is defined as when:

11. Spider naevi:

12. Gastric diverticula are:

13. The most valuable provocative test of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is:

14. Which of the following is not a variety of osmotic diarrhoea?

15. Among all of the following, which is the most characteristic feature regarding intestinal ischaemia?

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

17. Diarrhoea may be associated with all except:

18. Acute pancreatitis may be caused by:

19. The maximum absorption of fluid in the gastrointestinal tract occurs in:

20. Which one of the following is false in hepatorenal syndrome?

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

22. The most common cause of Budd-Chiari syndrome is:

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

24. Which is true with respect to irritable bowel syndrome?

25. Malabsorption may produce all of the following except:

26. Which is not a member of familial non-haemolytic hyperbilirubinaemia?

27. Extraintestinal amoebiasis may involve all except:

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

29. The commonest malignant tumour of the gallbladder is:

30. Giardia lamblia infestation produces a syndrome mimicking:

31. All of the following may be associated with hyposplenism except:

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

33. The weight of normal daily stool of a healthy adult is:

34. Halitosis is present in all except:

35. Aerophagia is commonly found in all except:

36. Acid peptic disease is rarely found in:

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

38. Which of the following is not associated with leucocytosis?

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

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

41. All are recognised complications of acute pancreatitis except:

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

43. Pneumaturia is an established feature of:

44. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is classically diagnosed by:

45. The ideal time to give antacids in peptic ulcer disease is:

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

47. Commonest cause of antral gastritis is:

48. A desire for defaecation is initiated by:

49. Faecal assay of alpha1-antitrypsin clinches the diagnosis of:

50. Fats are ingested primarily in the form of: