Devita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

LWBK1006-41 LWW-Govindan-Review November 24, 2011 11:29

Chapter 41•Paraneoplastic Syndromes 519

Question 41.11. Which of the associations between red cells and disease is FALSE?

A. Pure red cell aplasia and thymoma

B. Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and adenocarcinoma of the GI

tract

C. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia and CLL

D. Cold agglutinin disease and ovarian cancer

Question 41.12. Independent risk factors for disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)

include all the following, EXCEPT:

A. Female gender

B. Older age

C. Advanced stage

D. Breast cancer

Question 41.13. Which of the following renal associations is INCORRECT?

A. Minimal change disease and Hodgkin’s lymphoma

B. Immunoglobulin (Ig)A nephropathy and head and neck cancer

C. Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis and gastric cancer

D. Membranous nephropathy and lung cancer

Question 41.14. A 54-year-old former smoker develops lung cancer and is noted to have

a corrected serum calcium of 11.9. Which histological subtype is most

expected?

A. Squamous cell

B. Adenocarcinoma

C. Small cell

D. Mesothelioma

Question 41.15. Which of the following associations is INCORRECT?

A. Sudden appearance of seborrheic keratoses and gastric cancer

B. Pachydermoperiostosis and SCLC

C. Acquired ichthyosis and Hodgkin’s lymphoma

D. Necrolytic migratory erythema and glucagonoma

Question 41.16. Which of the following associations is INCORRECT?

A. Vitiligo and melanoma

B. Acrokeratosis paraneoplastica and squamous cell carcinoma of the

esophagus

C. Pyoderma gangrenosum and pancreatic cancer

D. Sweet’s syndrome and acute myelogenous leukemia

Question 41.17. A relapsing high-grade fever with fever spikes that are abrupt in onset

and resolution should point toward the diagnosis of:

A. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

B. Hodgkin’s lymphoma

C. Follicular lymphoma

D. Renal cell carcinoma