PLAB (Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board) Sample Questions Set-234
Categories: U.K. PLAB (Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board)
Question: A lady developed breast abscess after delivery. What is the most likely organism?
a. Staph aureus
b. Staph albus
c. GBS
d. Strep pyogenes
e. Strep faecalis
Answer: (a)
Question: A 32 year old man suffering from MS presents with blurring of vision. Ophthalmoscopy shows the pallor of the optic disc. Which anatomical site is most likely to be affected?
a. Optic nerve
b. Optic disc
c. Optic radiation
d. Trigeminal
e. Oculomotor nerve
Answer: (a)
Question: A 23 year old man presents with severe pain in the right flank radiating to his groin. He is rolling about on the floor. An IVU confirms a stone in the ureter which is 8mm in size. Which tx modality will be most effective?
a. Fluids and alpha blockers
b. ESWL
c. CCB
d. Dormier basket
e. PCNL
Answer: (b)
Question: A 37 year old woman believes that her neighbours have been using her shower while she is away from home. Her 42 year old partner is convinced about this and calls the police. What term best describes this situ?
a. Capgras syndrome
b. Cotard syndrome
c. Delusion of persecution
d. Folie a deux
e. Munchausen syndrome
Answer: (d)
Question: A 45 year old woman has dull pain in her right ear which has been present for several weeks. There is no discharge. Chewing is uncomfortable and her husband has noticed that she grinds her teeth during sleep. The eardrum appears normal. What is the single most likely diagnosis?
a. Dental caries
b. Mumps
c. OM
d. Temporomandibular joint pain
e. Trigeminal neuralgia
Answer: (d)
Question: A 42 year old lady had corrective surgery for cyanotic congenital heart disease at the age of 3 years after a palliative operation during infancy. There is a parasternal impulse and an early diastolic murmur. What is the most probable diagnosis?
a. Aortic regurgitation
b. Ischemic mitral regurgitation
c. Aortic stenosis
d. Pulmonary stenosis
e. Pulmonary regurgitation
Answer: (e)
Question: A 45 year old lady presents with hx of double vision and facial numbness. Which anatomical site is most likely to be affected?
a. Cerebral cortex
b. Trigeminal nerve
c. Oculomotor nerve
d. Brain stem
e. Basal ganglia
Answer: (d)
Question: A 30 year old woman has experienced restlessness, muscle tension and sleep disturbance on most days over the last 6m. She worries excessively about a number of everyday events and activities and is unable to control these feelings which are impairing her ability to hold down her job. What is the most likely diagnosis?
a. Panic disorder
b. GAD
c. Pheochromocytoma
d. Acute stress disorder
e. Social phobia
Answer: (b)
Question: Which of the following is not a degenerative corneal disease?
a. Band keratopathy
b. Marginal dystropathy
c. Fatty/lipid degeneration
d. Mooren’s ulcer
e. Keratoconus
Answer: (d)
Question: A 30 year old man presents to hosp complaining that his urine has been very dark recently, resembling coffee at worst. He has been under the weather 2 weeks back and had taken a few days off work with a sore throat and coryzal symptoms. Urine dipstick in hospital returns highly positive for blood and protein. He is admitted for supportive management and is scheduled for a renal biopsy, which shows mesangial proliferation with a positive immune-flurescence pattern. What is the most probable diagnosis?
a. Membranous glomerulonephropathy
b. SLE
c. Wegener’s granulomatosis
d. Post – strep GN
e. IgA nephropathy
Answer: (d)