NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Medical Science MCQs (Practice_Test 98 of 135)
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- Consider the following statements regarding bowel preparation for patients undergoing colonic surgery:
- It is not necessary in the case of patients undergoing right hemicolectomy
- Mechanical cleansing of the bowel is not important after the advent of the new generation of broad spectrum antibiotics
- Rapid bowel preparation may be done using polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution.
- On table wash out of the colon is recommended in emergencies after the abdomen has been opened.
- Of these statements
- 1,2, 3 and 4 are correct
- 2 and 3 are correct
- 1 and 4 are correct
- 1,3 and 4 are correct
- A 42-year old woman presents with metastatic breast 9 cancer in the vertebra, ileum and ribs five years after she had undergone radical mastectomy. The most appropriate initial treatment for her would be
- Administration of oestrogens
- Administration of androgens
- Oophorectomy and androgens
- Adrenalectomy
- A 50-year old female presents with a fungating carcinoma of the breast 8 cm in diameter. Mobile 1 cm diameter nodes are palpable in the ipsilateral axilla. Chest Xray and bone scan are normal. The treatment of choice for her would be
- Simple mastectomy with axillary clearance and post operative chemotherapy
- Simple mastectomy with axil1ar node sampling and post-operative radiotherapy; chemotherapy if nodes are positive
- Radiotherapy to breast and excision of axillary nodes
- Radical mastectomy and chemotherapy
- The most common cause of neonatal intestinal obstruction is
- Meconium ileus
- Congenital bands
- Mairotation
- Ileal atresia
- Which one of the following is the most important diagnostic physical sign of pneumothorax?
- Resonant note on percussion with absent or decreased breath sounds
- Decreased vocal framitus
- Making of heart sounds
- Decreased respiratory movement of chest on effected side.
- Assertion (A) : Spinal cord injuries following dislocation of cervical spin arc often partial or absent.
- Reason (R) : The size of the neural canal in the cervical region is large in relation to the cord.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : Braium should never be administered orally to a patient with suspected colonic obstruction.
- Reason (R) : Barium sulphate gets inspissated in the large bond and aggravates the obstruction.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : The distal fragment of bone in supracondylar fractures of the femur is the flexed.
- Reason (R) : The attachment of the gastrocnemius muscle is responsible for the flexing.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : The stomach is supplied by the branches of the coeliac trunk,
- Reason (R) : The coeliac trunk is the first unpaired branch of the abdominal arota.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : Cilia are present even after goblet cells and glands disappear from the walls of the bronchioles.
- Reason (R) : Such an arrangement of the cilia in relation to the muscus producing elements prevents accumulations of muscus in the bronchioles
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : In the proximal convoluted tubule, the pH of the tubular fluid fails only slightly.
- Reason (R) : Little H + secretion occurs in the proximal convoluted tubule.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : Cerebellum coordinates the activity of ipsilateral limb muscles.
- Reason (R) : Cerebellum has direct efferent connections with the motor neurons of ipsilateral limb muscles.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : Disease of basal ganglia increases muscle tone.
- Reason (R) : Basal ganglia inhibit facilitatory reticular formation.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : Protein-energy malnutrition is more common among children (0 to 6 years) than among adults.
- Reason (R) : Children require proportionately more protein per kg body weight.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : Growth rate of population in India is quite high.
- Reason (R) : Rapid advances in health care systems have been effective in reducing the Crude Death Rate in India.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true