Endocrine

Question 1

Adrenal tumors, EXCEPT:

a. Neuroblastoma
b. Medulloblastoma
c. Phaeochromocytoma
d. Adenoma

Answer 1

b. Medulloblastoma

Primary brain tumor in children

Question 2

Medullary thyroid carcinoma is a neuroendrocrine tumor.

a. True
b. False

Answer 2

a. True

Question 3

True for Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (2 correct answers):

a. Hemorrhagic necrosis of adrenal glands
b. Characterized by cutan hemorrhages and DIC
c. Complication of E. coli sepsis caused meningitis
d. It is a paraneoplastic syndrome

Answer 3

a. Hemorrhagic necrosis of adrenal glands

b. Characterized by cutan hemorrhages and DIC

Question 4

Localizations of neuroendocrine tumors, EXCEPT:

a. Plexus choroideus
b. Glomus caroticum
c. Adrenal medulla
d. Parathyroid glands

Answer 4

a. Plexus choroideus

Ependymal cells

Question 5

Multiple endocrine neoplasia:

a. Tumor occurs in every affected organ
b. Symptoms occur after age of 40
c. Affects every endocrine organ
d. Familial disease
e. The thyroid is most severly affected

Answer 5

d. Familial disease

Question 6

Most important histological diagnostic criterion of papillary thyroid carcinoma:

a. Papillary structures
b. Psammoma body
c. Special alteration of the cytoplasm
d. Special alterations of the nuclei

Answer 6

d. Special alterations of the nuclei