Pulmonology

1. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

2. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

3. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

4. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

6. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

7. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

9. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

10. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

11. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

12. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

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

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

17. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

18. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

19. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

20. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

22. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

23. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

24. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

25. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

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

27. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

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

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

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

32. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

33. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

35. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

38. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

39. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

40. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

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

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

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

45. Drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia is caused by all except:

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

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

48. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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