Pulmonology

1. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

3. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

4. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

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

8. All of the following are allergic reactions to tuberculosis except:

9. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

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

12. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

15. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

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

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

18. Emphysema is associated with all except:

19. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

20. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

21. Which of the following is false in restrictive lung disease?

22. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

23. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

24. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

25. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

28. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

29. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

30. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

31. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

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

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

34. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

35. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

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

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

39. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

40. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

41. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

43. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

44. Which of the following is not associated with interstitial lung disease?

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

46. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

47. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

49. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

50. Malt worker’s lung is caused by: