Gastroenterology

1. The commonest malignant tumour of the gallbladder is:

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

3. Silvery stool signifies a lesion characteristic of:

4. The most common and most specific radiological feature in barium meal follow-through in a patient with malabsorption is:

5. Normal faecal fat is defined as:

6. Melanosis coli indicates:

7. Crohn’s disease is caused by:

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

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

10. Pyrosis is better known as:

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

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

13. Regarding ischaemic colitis, which one is true?

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

15. Tegaserod is used in:

16. All of the following enzymes may be normally found in stool except:

17. Which of the following does not produce secretory diarrhoea?

18. Bentiromide test diagnoses?

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

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

21. Granulomatous hepatitis is not a feature of:

22. The most helpful differentiating histological feature between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease by rectal biopsy is:

23. Oral contraceptive pills may have a hepatic lesion in the form of all except:

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

25. Hepatic rub may be found in:

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

27. All of the following may give rise to flat oral GTT and a normal IV GTT except:

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

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

30. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is classically diagnosed by:

31. Menetrier’s disease may have all of the following except:

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

33. The presence of diverticulosis is most commonly seen in:

34. The commonest type of oral malignancy is:

35. Portal hypertension associated with soft liver suggests:

36. Water is minimally absorbed from:

37. Which of the following clotting factors is not produced in the liver?

38. Secretory diarrhoea has no association with:

39. All of the following produce invasive diarrhoea except:

40. Regarding diffuse oesophageal spasm, which of the following is true?

41. Primary biliary cirrhosis may be associated with all except:

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

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

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

45. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has all the advantages except:

46. The classical triad in carcinoid syndrome is:

47. The most sensitive test which detects hepatic involvement in congestive cardiac failure is:

48. All of the following may cause traveller’s diarrhoea except:

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

50. Regarding Meckel’s diverticulum, which one is false?