Pulmonology

1. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

3. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

4. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

5. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

6. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

7. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

8. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

9. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

10. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

11. Viral pneumonia may have:

12. Brassy cough is seen in:

13. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

14. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

15. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

17. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

19. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

20. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

21. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

22. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

23. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

24. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

25. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

26. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

27. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

28. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

29. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

30. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

31. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

32. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

34. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

35. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

36. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

37. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

38. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

40. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

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

42. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

44. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

45. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

46. A large number of eosinophils in the sputum is diagnostic of:

47. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

48. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

49. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

50. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is: