Pneumoconioses

Question 1

Which Pneumoconiosis affects lower lobe?

Answer 1

Asbestos

Question 2

Rheumatoid Arthritis and Pneumoconiosis (coal workers) with intrapulmonary nodules

Answer 2

Caplan Syndrome

Question 3

Which is the only Pneumoconiosis that affects the lower lobes?

Answer 3

Asbestosis

Question 4

What three jobs is asbestosis associated with?

Answer 4

Shipbuilding, roofing and plumbing

Question 5

What are pathognomonic of asbestosis?

Answer 5

“Ivory white,” calcified, supradiaphragmatic and pleural plaques

Question 6

2 Phrases to describe asbestosis?

Answer 6

Fibrosis of the lungs and pleura

Cancer of the lungs and Pleura

Question 7

Which cancer do you get more in asbestosis?

Answer 7

bronchogenic carcinoma > mesothelioma

Question 8

What are the golden-brown

fusiform rods resembling dumbbells?

Answer 8

Asbestos (ferruginous) bodies

Question 9

Sarcoidosis like symptoms but patient works in NASA or Aerospace industry

Answer 9

Berylliosis

Question 10

Berylliosis has an increased risk of?

Answer 10

Cancer

Question 11

asymptomatic condition found in

many urban dwellers exposed to sooty air?

Answer 11

anthracosis

Question 12

Which condition is associated with foundries, sandblasting, mines?

Answer 12

Silicosis

Question 13

Which is the only Pneumoconiosis that can Increase risk for TB?

Answer 13

Silicosis

Question 14

“Eggshell” calcification of hilar lymph nodes.?

Answer 14

Silicosis

Question 15

Silicosis MOA for increasing TB?

Answer 15

Silica=>disrupts phagolysosomes and impair macrophages=>Increased Risk of TB

Question 16

Mesothelioma is associated with two things?

Answer 16

1. Psammoma bodies

2. Smoking is not a risk factor