Chapter 14

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Which of the following is true of Paget's Disease?

a) Bowing of a long bone is a characteristic feature

b) Spinal cord compression is a common complication

c) Heart failure is not a recognized complication

d) Pathological fractures are not a feature

Which of the following is true of facial nerve palsy?

a) Bells palsy is another term for an upper motor neurone lesion

b) Ramsay Hunt Syndrome is an upper motor neurone lesion secondary to a Herpes Zoster infection

c) An inability to close the eyelid on the paralysed side indicates a lower motor neurone lesion

d) In Bell's Palsy the sense of taste is never affected

Which of the following is true of Systemic Sclerosis?

a) It affects males more than females

b) If telangiectasia are seen this clinches the diagnosis

c) Arachnodactyly is a feature of the disease

d) Patients have a beaked shaped nose and waxy skin

Which of the following is true about Cushing's Syndrome?

a) It is due to a deficiency of cortisol hormone

b) Enlarged extremities are commonly seen

c) Osteoporosis is not a feature

d) A moon face and a buffalo hump are characteristic of the disease

Which of the following is true about Addisons Disease?

a) It is due to a deficiency of prolactin hormone

b) Leads to generalized pigmentation

c) It is a recognized cause of hypertension

d) Diabetes is a complication