Endocrine Flashcards
Adrenal tumors, EXCEPT:
a. Neuroblastoma
b. Medulloblastoma
c. Phaeochromocytoma
d. Adenoma
b. Medulloblastoma
Primary brain tumor in children
Medullary thyroid carcinoma is a neuroendrocrine tumor.
a. True
b. False
a. True
True for Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (2 correct answers):
a. Hemorrhagic necrosis of adrenal glands
b. Characterized by cutan hemorrhages and DIC
c. Complication of E. coli sepsis caused meningitis
d. It is a paraneoplastic syndrome
a. Hemorrhagic necrosis of adrenal glands
b. Characterized by cutan hemorrhages and DIC
Localizations of neuroendocrine tumors, EXCEPT:
a. Plexus choroideus
b. Glomus caroticum
c. Adrenal medulla
d. Parathyroid glands
a. Plexus choroideus
Ependymal cells
Multiple endocrine neoplasia:
a. Tumor occurs in every affected organ
b. Symptoms occur after age of 40
c. Affects every endocrine organ
d. Familial disease
e. The thyroid is most severly affected
d. Familial disease
Most important histological diagnostic criterion of papillary thyroid carcinoma:
a. Papillary structures
b. Psammoma body
c. Special alteration of the cytoplasm
d. Special alterations of the nuclei
d. Special alterations of the nuclei