All Free Oral Pathology and Medicine MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Paget's dissease
  • B. Osteosarcoma
  • C. Ewing sarcoma
  • D. Multiple myeloma

Explanation: Multiple myeloma characteristically produces multiple punched-out radiolucencies, especially in the skull and jaw bones.

Correct answer: Multiple myeloma
  • A. Genetic
  • B. Viral
  • C. Injury
  • D. Endocrine

Explanation: Multiple neurofibromatosis, or neurofibromatosis type 1, is an inherited genetic disorder caused by pathogenic variants in the NF1 gene.

Correct answer: Genetic
  • A. Follilcular reticulosis
  • B. A malignant neoplasm
  • C. Chronic granulomatous disease
  • D. Inflammatory disease

Explanation: Hodgkin disease is a malignant lymphoid neoplasm characterized by Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells, even though it may present with…

Correct answer: A malignant neoplasm
  • A. Osteochondroma
  • B. Giant cell tumour
  • C. Multiple myeloma
  • D. Paget's disease

Explanation: Multiple myeloma is a malignant plasma-cell neoplasm that causes destructive skeletal lesions, marrow failure and systemic complications…

Correct answer: Multiple myeloma
  • A. Hemangiomatous involvement of skin
  • B. Mostly bilateral
  • C. Port wine nevus
  • D. Vascular gingival hyperplasia

Explanation: Sturge-Weber syndrome classically causes a usually unilateral facial port-wine stain with leptomeningeal and ocular vascular involvement…

Correct answer: Mostly bilateral
  • A. Multiple myeloma
  • B. paget's disease
  • C. Malignant melanoma
  • D. Fibrous dysplasia

Explanation: Bence-Jones proteins are free immunoglobulin light chains excreted in urine and are classically associated with plasma-cell dyscrasias…

Correct answer: Multiple myeloma
  • A. There is hyperplasia of parathyroid gland
  • B. All of the above
  • C. Pancreatic tumours may produce gastrin, insulin glucagon, samatostain
  • D. Chromophobe adenoma of pituitary gland may result in acromegaly

Explanation: MEN syndromes can include parathyroid hyperplasia, pituitary adenomas producing growth hormone and pancreatic endocrine tumours producing…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Peutz Jegers Syndrome
  • B. Albright's Syndrome
  • C. Sturge Weber Syndrome
  • D. Lymphangioma

Explanation: A port-wine stain is a capillary malformation classically associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome, often involving the ophthalmic division…

Correct answer: Sturge Weber Syndrome
  • A. Xeroderma pigmentosum
  • B. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
  • C. Plummer-vinson syndrome
  • D. SLE

Explanation: Systemic lupus erythematosus is not classically listed as a precancerous condition, whereas Plummer-Vinson syndrome, xeroderma pigmentosum…

Correct answer: SLE
  • A. AIDS
  • B. Hepatitis B
  • C. Smoker's keratitis
  • D. Candidiasis

Explanation: Oral hairy leukoplakia is an Epstein-Barr virus-associated lesion strongly linked with HIV-related immunosuppression, especially AIDS.

Correct answer: AIDS
  • A. Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis
  • B. Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
  • C. Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
  • D. Vascular nevus

Explanation: Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia causes fragile telangiectatic vessels in the nasal and oral mucosa, so recurrent epistaxis is a…

Correct answer: Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
  • A. Alpha-thalassemia
  • B. Glandular fever
  • C. Hodgkin's disease
  • D. Hansan's disease

Explanation: Reed-Sternberg cells are the characteristic neoplastic cells of Hodgkin disease, classically appearing as large binucleate or bilobed…

Correct answer: Hodgkin's disease
  • A. Carcinoma lung
  • B. Carcinoma breast
  • C. Carcinoma urinary bladder
  • D. Carcinoma prostate

Explanation: Prostatic carcinoma classically produces osteoblastic, or bone-forming, metastases.

Correct answer: Carcinoma prostate
  • A. Lips
  • B. Buccal mucosa
  • C. Tongue
  • D. Palate

Explanation: Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia commonly produces visible telangiectases on the lips, tongue and oral mucosa, with the lips being a…

Correct answer: Lips
  • A. Hemangioma
  • B. Ameloblastoma
  • C. Neurofibroma
  • D. Giant cell fibroma

Explanation: Von Recklinghausen disease, or neurofibromatosis type 1, is characterized by multiple neurofibromas along with café-au-lait pigmentation…

Correct answer: Neurofibroma
  • A. German measles
  • B. Chicken pox
  • C. Small pox
  • D. Measles

Explanation: Rubeola is the medical term for measles, caused by measles virus. German measles is rubella, which is a separate viral infection.

Correct answer: Measles
  • A. oral ulcers in AIDS patients
  • B. oedema following extractions
  • C. TMJ arthritis
  • D. Angioneurotic oedema

Explanation: Systemic steroids may be used for significant post-extraction oedema, TMJ inflammatory arthritis, and angioneurotic oedema, but they are…

Correct answer: oral ulcers in AIDS patients
  • A. Trigeminal
  • B. Facial
  • C. Glossopharyngeal
  • D. Occulomotor nurve

Explanation: Ramsay Hunt syndrome is herpes zoster infection of the geniculate ganglion, affecting the facial nerve, cranial nerve VII.

Correct answer: Facial
  • A. Orthomyxo virus
  • B. EB virus
  • C. Rheno virus
  • D. Paramyxo virus

Explanation: Mumps is caused by the mumps virus, an enveloped RNA virus traditionally classified in the Paramyxovirus group.

Correct answer: Paramyxo virus
  • A. All of the above
  • B. Oral hairy leukoplakia
  • C. Gingivitis/periodontitis
  • D. Kaposi's sarcoma

Explanation: Late HIV infection can produce Kaposi sarcoma, Epstein-Barr virus-associated oral hairy leukoplakia, and severe gingival or periodontal…

Correct answer: All of the above