Pulmonology

1. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

3. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

5. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

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

7. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

8. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

9. Brassy cough is seen in:

10. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

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

13. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

15. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

16. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

17. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

18. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

19. Clubbing is present in all except:

20. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

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

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

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

26. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

27. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

28. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

29. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

30. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

31. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

33. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

34. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

35. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

36. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

37. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

39. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

41. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

43. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

45. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

48. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

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

50. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except: