Gastroenterology

1. All of the following produce invasive diarrhoea except:

2. Gum hypertrophy is not a feature of:

3. All are absorbed maximally in the upper small intestine except:

4. Hirschsprung’s disease is not manifested by:

5. A ‘white patch’ in the throat may be due to all except:

6. A child having diarrhoea later complicated by the appearance of rash and petechiae. The most probable diagnosis is:

7. Which of the following is not a recognized complication of ulcerative colitis?

8. The commonest cause of chronic relapsing pancreatitis is:

9. Crohn’s disease is caused by:

10. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is classically diagnosed by:

11. Cholangiocarcinoma may be associated with:

12. Calcification of spleen is seen in:

13. Gastric diverticula are:

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

15. Diarrhoea may be associated with all except:

16. Secretin is produced in largest quantities in:

17. The commonest malignant tumour of the gallbladder is:

18. Commonest cause of antral gastritis is:

19. Portal hypertension associated with soft liver suggests:

20. The commonest site of carcinoma of the stomach is:

21. Granulomatous hepatitis is not a feature of:

22. Late dumping syndrome may be manifested by all except:

23. In coeliac sprue, which of the following is non-deficient in the body?

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

25. Acute pancreatitis is not associated with:

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

27. The best way to diagnose Gilbert’s syndrome is:

28. NSAID-induced ulcers are best treated by:

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

30. Peritonitis may be complicated by all except:

31. Tropical sprue may be associated with all except:

32. The commonest hepatic lesion in haemochromatosis is:

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

34. Amino acids malabsorption is seen in:

35. The Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is associated with all of the following except:

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

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

38. All of the following are true in irritable bowel syndrome except:

39. Bentiromide test diagnoses?

40. Chronicity in hepatitis C virus infection is:

41. Anti-saccharomyces cerevisiae antibody (ASCA) is classically present in:

42. The most reliable method of measuring steatorrhoea is:

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

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

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

46. Which of the following is false regarding cholera?

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

48. Predominant unconjugated bilirubin is seen in all except:

49. The definitive test for diagnosis of haemochromatosis is:

50. The commonest cause of metastasis to the wall of the stomach is: