A) Profound gastric hypersecretion B) Large diarrhoea with occasional steatorrhoea C) Hypocalcaemia D) Hypergastrinaemia Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 24: A 30-year-old woman complains of suprasternal dysphagia only for solids. She also has a long-standing untreated menorrhagia leading to iron deficiency anaemia. What is the most probable cause for her dysphagia ?
A) Pharyngeal pouch B) Carcinoma oesophagus C) Dysphagia lusoria D) Patterson-Kelly syndrome Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 25: Tidy wounds inflicted by sharp instruments and containing no devitalised tissues are expected to heal by ?
A) Secondary healing B) Primary healing C) Formation of contracture D) Skin grafting Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
A) There are two types: ulcerative and hyperplastic B) The strictures are common in the ulcerative type C) In the ulcerative type, the bowel serosa is studded with tubercles D) The ulcerative type occurs when the virulence of the organism is greater than the host defence Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
A) Release of lipopolysaccharide endotoxins from the walls of dying gram-negative bacilli B) Tachycardia with a heart rate of more than 90 / min C) White cell count < 5000 / mm3 D) Tachypnoea with a respiratory rate of > 20 / min Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
A) Intra-thyroid B) In the superior parathyroid lobe C) In the inferior parathyroid lobe D) Mediastinal Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 29: The histological grade best correlates with the prognosis in which one of the following malignancies ?
A) Prostate cancer B) Melanoma C) Colonic adenocarcinoma D) Soft tissue sarcoma Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 30: When a patient suffers from critical limb ischemia, the ankle-brachial pressure index (ABPI) is less than ?
A) 1.0 B) 0.9 C) 0.7 D) 0.3 Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):