Pulmonology

1. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

2. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

3. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

4. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

5. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

6. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

7. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

8. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

9. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

10. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

11. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

12. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

13. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

14. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

15. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

16. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

17. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

18. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

19. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

20. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

21. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

22. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

23. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

24. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

25. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

26. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

27. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

28. Acute pulmonary oedema may develop after consumption of all except:

29. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

30. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

31. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

32. The lower part of right border of cardiac silhouette in a chest X-ray (PA view) is usually formed by:

33. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

34. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except:

35. The dose of which antituberculous drug need not be reduced in severe renal failure?

36. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

37. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

38. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

39. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

40. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

41. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

42. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

43. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

44. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

45. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

46. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

47. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

48. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

49. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

50. Stridor is not a manifestation of: