Resp

Question 1

What kind of lung cancer causes clubbing

Answer 1

squamous

Question 2

What does hypercapnia lead to

Answer 2

vasodilation

Question 3

Where does the inferior vena cava cross the diaphragm

Answer 3

T8

Question 4

Where does the trachea start and terminate

Answer 4

Start- C6

Terminates T5

Question 5

What is resp epethelium? and purpose of the cilia

Answer 5

ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium. Cilia beat driving the mucocilliary escalator

Question 6

Describe the main stages of embryonic resp development

Answer 6

Week 4- resp diverticulum- start of lung formation
Week 10- tertiary bronchial buds form and lungs begin to grow
Week 18- terminal bronchioles begin to from
Week 22-24- surfactant produced
Week 30- primary alveoli form

Question 7

List the paraneoplastic sydromes of lung cancers

Answer 7

squamous cell: parathyroid hormone, clubbing, hypertrophic pulmonary oesteoparothy
small cell: ADH, ACTH, Lambert-Eaton syndrome