Pulmonology

1. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

2. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

3. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

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

5. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

8. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

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

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

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

12. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

13. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

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

15. A patient with hemoptysis and having a depressed bridge of the nose points towards:

16. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

17. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

18. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

19. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

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

21. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

22. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

24. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

25. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

26. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

28. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

29. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

30. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

31. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

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

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

34. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

35. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

36. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

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

38. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

39. Viral pneumonia may have:

40. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

42. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

44. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

45. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

47. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

48. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

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