Multiple choice questions about chronic suppurative otitis media

This file has 10 mcqs about CSOM in the subject of otorhinolaryngology

1. MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS
PRADYUMNA M ATHREYAS
PHASE 3 MBBS

2. WHAT CHARACTERIZES THE EUSTACHIAN TUBE IN
CHILDREN COMPARED TO ADULTS?
A.MORE ANGULATED AND TIGHTER
B.CLOSED AND RIGID
C.HORIZONTAL AND MORE FLACCID
D.LENGTH - 36 mm

3. C. HORIZONTAL AND MORE FLACCID

4. WHAT IS THE MOST RELIABLE TEST FOR
EUSTACHIAN TUBE DYSFUNCTION?

A.PNEUMATIC OTOSCOPY
B.NASOPHARYNGOSCOPY
C.TYMPANOMETRY
D.SONOTUBOMETRY

5. C. TYPANOMETRY

6. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE MAJORITY OF
MIDDLE EAR INFECTIONS?

A.ADENOID HYPERTROPHY
B.EUSTACHIAN TUBE DYSFUNCTION
C.MASTOID AIR CELL INFLAMMATION
D.PALATAL ABNORMALITIES

7. B. EUSTACHIAN TUBE DYSFUNCTION

8. AT WHAT PRESSURE DIFFERENCE DOES THE
EUSTACHIAN TUBE BECOME BLOCKED DURING
DESCENT?
A.30mm of water
B.60mm of water
C.95mm of water
D.80mm of water

9. C. 95MM OF WATER

10. A 30 YEAR OLD INDIVIDUAL IS DRIVING BACK TO
DELHI FROM KASHMIR AFTER HIS FAMILY TRIP. HE
COMPLAINED OF SENSATION OF BLOCKAGE,
DIFFICULTY IN HEARING, AND PAIN. WHAT IS THE
MOST LIKELY MECHANISM?
A.EXPANSION OF MIDDLE EAR GAS
B.SHRINKAGE OF EUSTACHIAN TUBE
C.DECREASE IN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
D.NEGATIVE PRESSURE IN NASOPHARYNX

11. B. SHRINKAGE OF THE EUSTACHIAN TUBE

12. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING TYPE OF CSOM
REPRESENTS A QUIESCENT STAGE?
A.ACTIVE MUCOSAL CSOM
B.INACTIVE MUCOSAL CSOM
C.ACTIVE SQUAMOSAL CSOM
D.INACTIVE SQUAMOSAL CSOM

13. D. INACTIVE SQUAMOSAL CSOM

14. WHICH CLINICAL CONDITION IS ASSOSCIATED WITH
GRADENIGO TRIAD
A.ACUTE MASTOIDITIS
B.OTITIC HYDROCEPHALUS
C.LABYRINTHITIS
D.PETROSITIS

15. D. PETROSITIS

16. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACRANIAL
COMPLICATIONS OF CSOM EXCEPT
A.FACIAL NERVE PALSY
B.PETROSITIS
C.LATERAL SINUS THROMBOPHLEBITIS
D.SEPTICEMIA

17. C. LATERAL SINUS THROMBOPHLEBITIS

18. A 65 YEAR OLD PATIENT PRESENTS WITH PERSISTANT FOUL SMELLING
EAR DISCHARGE AND PROFOUND HEARING LOSS. OTOSCOPIC
EXAMINATION REVEALS A PERMANENT PERFORATION IN THE ATTIC
REGION. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS LESS LIKELY A COMPLICATION
ASSOSCIATED WITH THIS CONDITION


A.TEGMEN EROSION
B.OSSICULAR EROSION
C.OSTEITIS
D.TYMPANOSCLEROSIS

19. D. TYMPANOSCLEROSIS

20. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS IS
CHARACTERISTIC OF TUBOTYMPANIC CSOM
COMPARED TO ATTICO ANTRAL CSOM
A.PRESENCE OF CHOLESTEATOMA
B.COMMON IN ADULTS
C.INVOLVEMENT OF POSTEROSUPERIOR REGION
D.PROFUSE EAR DISCHARGE

21. D. PROFUSE EAR DISCHARGE

22. THANK YOU