These Quick Quizzes are not to test your knowledge. They are to test the facts you know. Hence the term Quick. These Quizzes should be doable in under 2 minutes. They are not Board like questions rather they are testing if you are retaining the facts you are studying in your review books i.e. first aid.

In an ideal world you would study a section of material and then take a quick quiz to ensure that you have understood and retained all the information you have read.

You have to understand that the problem with the way we study for Boards is that we read everyday for hours and hours. After a while all the information blends together. Quick Quizzes are meant to be a "Quick and Dirty" way to review the info you have studied each day. Use them to your advantage to analyze if you need to review particular topics.
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Today's Quick Quiz


Pathology QQ #5







  1. Presentation of this primary brain tumor includes papilledema, endocrine abnormalities, and bilate


    2. pituitary adenoma

    medulloblastoma

    craniopharyngioma

    hemangioblastoma



  2. What supratentorial tumor is derived from remnants of Rathke's pouch?


    3. craniopharyngioma

    hemangioblastoma

    medulloblastoma

    ependymoma



  3. What tumor has perivascular rosettes with rod shaped blepharoplasts found near nucleus?


    4. pilocytic astrocytoma

    medulloblastoma

    ependymoma

    hemangioblastoma



  4. Which of the following primary tumors metastasize to the brain?


    5. kidney, pancreas, lung

    Breast, GI, Lung

    Thyroid, kidney, lung

    kidney, skin, prostate



  5. Which of the following primary tumors does NOT metastasize to the liver?


    6. Colon

    Prostate

    Pancreas

    Lung



  6. Renal cell carcinoma has what paraneoplastic effect?


    7. Cushing's syndrome

    hypocalcemia

    polycythemia

    Lambert-Eaton Syndrome



  7. Which of the following correlates to Iron deficient anemia?


    8. dec serum iron, dec TIBC, dec ferritin

    dec serum iron, inc TIBC, inc ferritin

    MCV > 100

    MCV < 80



  8. Increased risk of encapsulated organism infection, salmonella osteomyelitis, painful crisis?


    9. alpha-Thalassemia

    beta-Thalassemia

    aplastic anemia

    sickle cell anemia



  9. "Crew cut" on skull x-ray due to marrow expansion is seen in which of the following?


    10. sickle cell anemia

    alpha thalassemia

    beta thalassemia

    all of the above



  10. Small RBC's, inc MCHC, Coombs' negative, gallstones?


    11. Hereditary spherocytosis

    sickle cell anemia

    Bernard-Soulier disease

    alpha-thalassemia