PasTest Quiz - August 2007

(Closing date: 1st September 2007)

300 Single Best Answer Questions for Medical and Surgical Finals

Please take part in our August 2007 quiz, kindly provided by PasTest. These are sample questions from their undergraduate medical students revision facility which will soon to available at PasTest OnLine website, with many more questions along with answers to help with your revision.

This quiz is open to all. This month for the quiz winner, there is a very useful book on: "300 Single Best Answer Questions for Medical and Surgical Finals" By: Satyen Gohil - An excellent easy-to-use book of revision questions with detailed answers, covering large sections of the medical and surgical curricula. This book is very kindly provided by PasTest.

The winner will be picked at random from all entries.

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The closing date is 1st September 2007.

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Question 1

Scenario:

A 55-year-old school teacher with known breast cancer presents with increasing confusion, non-localising abdominal pain, fatigue and a history of increasing thirst and weight loss. She also complains of pain in the small of the back and tenderness on the right side of her chest.

For each question given below choose the SINGLE BEST option:

Which one of the following treatments is least indicated in the management of this condition?

	(a) Fluid rehydration
	(b) Frusemide
	(c) Pamidronate infusion
	(d) Bendroflumethiazide
	(e) Calcitonin

How would this clinical condition manifest itself initially on ECG testing?

	(a) Shortened QT interval
	(b) Presence of J waves
	(c) Presence of U waves
	(d) Widening of the QRS complex
	(e) Prolonged QT interval

Question 2

Which one of the following cancers is most likely to metastasise to bone?

	(a) Bronchus
	(b) Breast
	(c) Renal
	(d) Thyroid
	(e) Prostate

Question 3

A 73-year-old gentleman who is a retired boxer presents to his general practitioner with weight loss secondary to early satiety and malaise. His past medical history is significant for H. pyloriassociated gastritis. Lymphadenopathy is present on examination.

Which one of the following is likely to be present on examination in the above patient?

	(a) Trousseau's sign
	(b) Troisier's sign
	(c) Barrett's metaplasia
	(d) De Musset's sign
	(e) Pemberton's sign

Question 4

Which one of the following is not a classical description of psoriatic arthropathy?

	(a) Proximal interphalangeal joint predominant
	(b) Psoriatic spondylitis
	(c) Rheumatoid-like
	(d) Arthritis mutilans
	(e) Asymmetrical oligomonoarthritis

Question 5

Which one of the following is responsible for the highest rates of genital ulceration world-wide?

	(a) Treponema pallidum
	(b) Whipple's disease
	(c) Candida albicans
	(d) Granuloma inguinale
	(e) Haemophilus ducreyi

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