FINAL (?) Flashcards
Displacement of an interlobar fissue is indicative of?
a. Volume change
b. Neoplasm
c. Lung expansion only
d. Atelectasis only
A. Volume change
Calcification of a pulmonary nodule indicates that it is most likely:
a. Primary malignant lesion
b. Benign lesion
c. Mets lesion
d. Cystic lesion
B. benign lesion
A bronchopneumonia type of pattern would not be expected:
a. Aspiration pneumonia
b. Staph A. pneumonia
c. Viral pneumonia
d. Pneumoccoal pneumonia
B. Staph A pneumonia
WOTF is an infectious granulomatous disease?
a. Sarcoidosis
b. Eosinophilic granuloma
c. Wegener’s granulomatosis
d. Rheumatoid
e. Histoplasmosis
E. Histioplasmosis
Which of the following is not considered to be an associated cause of bronchogenic cancer
a. Cigarette smoking
b. Asbestosis
c. Pulmonary fibrosis
d. Previous histplasmosis
D. Previous histioplasmosis
Dys-motile cilia syndrome/Kartagener’s may have this radiographic finding:
a. Localized air space consolidation
b. Atelectasis
c. Situs inversus totalisa
d. Reticular interstitial disease
e. Multiple lung caviations
D. Reticular interstitial disease
Pulmonary actinomycosis is often contracted via
a. Inhale dust in an endemic area
b. Spread from a dental infection
c. Hematogenous spread from a primary GI infestation
d. Airborne droplet transmission thru coughing or sneezing from an infected individual
B. Spread from a dental infection
Which one of the following disorders is related to noxious gas inhalation?
a. Silo filler’s disease
b. Farmer’s lung
c. Bagassosis
d. Byssinosis
e. Air conditioners lung
D. Byssinosis
Early and intermediate stage silicosis is characterized by which radiographic finding?
a. Basilar fibrosis
b. Fibrotic masses adjacent to upper mediastinum
c. Patchy air space consolidation
d. Military nodules
e. Widespread honeycomb lung
C. Patchy air space consolidation
With acute pulmonary infections:
a. Pneumococcal pneumonia usually begins centrally and spreads peripherally
b. Klebsiella pneumonia involves the upper lungs and has a fatality rate approaching 50%
c. Staph A. pneumonia produces pneumatoceles in both adults and children
d. Aspiration pneumonia occurs predominately in the upper lobes.
B. Klebsiella pneumonia involves the upper lungs and has a fatality rate approaching 50%
Thermoactinomyces vulgaris is associated with which two of the following? PICK 2
a. Silicosis
b. Farmer’s lung
c. Silo filler’s disease
d. Mushroom workers lung
e. Talcosis
C. Silo fillers disease
E. Talcosis
Silicosis and TB could produce this radiographic finding
a. Subsegmental upper lung consolidation
b. Widespread acinonodular lung disease
c. Miliary interstitial lung disease
d. Calcified parenchymal nodule
C. Miliary interstitial lung disease
TB, Sarcoidosis, Connective tissue diseases & pneumoconiosis all have __________ in common
a. Air space consolidation
b. Interstitial disease
c. Nodular densities
d. Fibrosis
D. Fibrosis
Aspiration pneumonitis
a. Causes bilateral patchy consolidation
b. Causes lobar consolidation
c. Causes bronchopneumonia pattern in right lung base
d. May cause a silhouette sign w/the ascending aorta
C. Causes bronchopneumonia pattern in right lung base
Chronic bronchitis
a. Stimulates honeycomb lung
b. >80% of cases related to cigarette smoking
c. Related chronic fungal infections
d. Common in lung bases
B. >80% of cases related to cigarette smoking