Pulmonology

1. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

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

3. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

4. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

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

6. Investigation of the highest diagnostic efficacy in acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

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

8. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

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

10. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

11. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

12. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

13. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

14. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

15. Hypercarbia is associated with:

16. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

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

18. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

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

21. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

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

23. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

24. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

25. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

26. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

27. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

28. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

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

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

31. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

32. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

33. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

35. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

36. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

37. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

39. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

40. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

41. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

42. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

43. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

44. Laennec’s pearls and Curschmann’s spirals in sputum are characteristically seen in:

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

46. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

48. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

49. Stridor is characteristically found in:

50. Lung abscess is not a complication of: