Pulmonology

1. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

2. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

3. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

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

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

6. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

7. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

10. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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

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

14. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

15. Which of the following does not belong to the triad of symptomatic bronchial asthma?

16. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

17. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

18. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

19. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

20. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

21. Clubbing is present in all except:

22. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

23. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

25. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

27. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

28. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

29. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

31. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

33. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

35. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

37. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

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

40. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

42. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

44. Which is false regarding emphysema?

45. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

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

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

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