Medical Mcqs

Mikulicz’s disease is____________?

(A) An inflammatory disease

(B) Neoplastic disease

(C) An autoimmune disease

(D) Viral infection

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A painful crater like 1.5 cm ulcer develops within one week on the hard palate mucosa of a 40 year old female The most likely diagnosis is_______________?

(A) Actinomycosis

(B) Squamous cell carcinoma

(C) Pleomorphic adenoma

(D) Necrotizing sialometaplasia

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Which of the following parotid malignancy shows perineural spread_______________?

(A) Pleomorphic adenoma

(B) Adenoid cystic carcinoma

(C) Warthin’s tumor

(D) Ductal papilloma

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Reduction in flow of saliva is not generally seen in______________?

(A) Elderly diabetics

(B) Patient undergoing radiation therapy

(C) Patients suffering from parkinsonism

(D) Patients on phenothiazine drugs

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Acute non-suppurative sialdenitis is seen in______________?

(A) Acute bacterial sialadenitis

(B) Mumps

(C) Chronic backerial sialadenitis

(D) Necrotizing sialometaplasia

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Mucocele most commonly arise as a result of_____________?

(A) Rupture of a salivary duct

(B) Partial or complete compression of the salivary acini

(C) Inflammatory changes in the glandular interestitial tissue

(D) Partial or complete obstruction of teh salivary duct by calculus

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Adenoid cystic carcinoma is also known as_______________?

(A) Cylindroma

(B) Pindborg tumor

(C) Warthins tumor

(D) Pleomorphic adenoma

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Parotid fatty change is sign of_____________?

(A) Aging

(B) Alcoholism

(C) Malnutrition

(D) None of the above

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Leafless fruit laden tree or cherry-blossom appearance on a sialogram indicates_____________?

(A) Mucoepidermoid cell carcinoma

(B) Acinar cell carcinoma

(C) Sjogren’s syndrome

(D) Pleomorphic adenoma

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Tender submandibular swelling is mostly due to________________?

(A) Ludwig’s angina

(B) Stone or Sialolithiasis

(C) Enlarged lymph nodes

(D) All of the above

Submitted By: Ali Uppal