ENT PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Abscessed teeth can rupture the medial mandibular cortex into the sublingual space.
This can cause the tongue to be pushed up and back. The biggest danger in this is loss
of... - Answers - Airway
The easiest way to ensure that the airway isn't lost in this isutation is to perform... -
Answers - A tracheotomy
Immunocompromised patients, especially patients with diabetes, can get a devastating
fungal infection of the sinuses called... - Answers - mucormycosis
Necrotizing otitis externa is a Pseudomonas infection of ????? and ????? which can
lead to fatal complications - Answers - EOC, skull base, temporal bone
Often ???? tissue is seen at the junction of the bony-cartilaginous junction in the
external auditory canal in patients with mecrotising otitis externa - Answers - granulation
The most common cause of a nosebleed in children is injury to vessels in.... - Answers -
Kisselbach's plexus
A posterior nosebleed in an adolsecent make is considered to be a ???? until proven
otherwise. - Answers - Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Two topical vasocontrictors often used in the nose are... - Answers - Oxymetazoline,
phenylephrine
The 3 most common organisms causing acute otitis media are... - Answers - S.
pneumonieae, H. influenza, Moraxella
The first-line antibiotic therapy for acute otitis media in children is - Answers -
Amoxicillin
Children with persistent otitis media with effusion for ??? months and evidence of
hearing loss are candidates for PE tube placement. - Answers - Three
Ear drainage in patients with PE tubes in place should be treated with - Answers -
Ototopical fluoroquinolone drops
The presence of bilateral fluid in the ears may cause up to ???? dB conductive hearing
loss. - Answers - 30-40dB
,It is important to examin the ???? in any adult with unilateral otitis media with effusion. -
Answers - Nasopharynx
In a patient with acute otitis media, in addition to being opaue and bulging, the ear drum
has ???? mobility on pneumatic otoscopy. - Answers - Decreased
The collection of trabeculated bony cavities lined with mucose and connected with the
middle ear is called the... - Answers - mastoid air cells
The pars flaccida (superior portion) of the eardrum can become ??? when there is
chronic megative pressure in the middle ear. - Answers - retracted
The outside of the TM, including the pars flaccida, is line with... - Answers - Squamous
epithelium
???? is suspected in a child presenting with gever, ear pain, a protruding auricle, and
fluctuance behind the ear. - Answers - Acute mastoiditis
In patients with chonic eustachian tube dysfunction, desquamated debris, consisting
mainly of keratin, cllects in the retracted pars flaccida. Over time, this can gow and
become a - Answers - cholesteatoma
If a patient presents with a draining ear, appropriate therapy includes drops, and -
Answers - oral antibiotics
???? is the furm submucosal scarring that can appear as a chalky white patch on the
eardrum. - Answers - Tympanosclerosis
If ear drainage persists depsite medical therapy, the patient requires referral to an
otolaryngologist to rule out - Answers - Cholesteatoma
The most common cause of conductive hearing loss in children is - Answers - Fluid in
the middle ear (otitis media)
The magnitude of a heraing loss is documented in the - Answers - Audiogram
The two major types of hearing loss are... - Answers - Conductive and sensorineural
Conductive hearing loss is present when air and bone conduction thresholds are... -
Answers - similar, approximate
Conductive hearing loss is present when there is a difference between ?? and ??
conduction thresholds. - Answers - Air and bone
Noise-induced hearing loss often produces a high frequency ??? in the audiogram. -
Answers - notch
, Otitis media with effusion produces a ???? tympanogram - Answers - Flat (type B)
Presbycusis produces a hearing loss that slopes to the ??? side of the audiogram -
Answers - right side, downward (Type C)
A patient with an asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss must be evaluated for the
potential of having an... - Answers - acoustic neuroma
Dizziness associated with an illusion of motion - Answers - Vertigo
Sudden vertigo that develops without ear symptoms and last for 24-48 hous is most
likely - Answers - Vestibular neuronitis or labyrinthitis
Vertigo precipitated by postional changes, lasting 10-60 seconds, and unassociated
with serious illness - Answers - Benign paroxysmal postional vertigo (BPPV)
Peripheral facial paralysis can be due to... - Answers - Tumor of parotid or skull base
infection
trauma
Facial paralysis with out an identified etiology - Answers - Bell's Palsy
Bell's palsy is commonly due to ??? and should be treated with ??? - Answers - Herpes
virus
treated with steroids and antivirals
A patient complains of fatuge, low-grade fever, purulent rhinorrhea, and HA that
resolves within 7 days. The most likely diagnosis is a... - Answers - Common cold
A patient had a typical cold that did not resolve in 10 days and has now had fatigue,
purulent rhinorrhea, low-grade fever, and HA for 3 weeks. The most likely diagnosis is...
- Answers - bacterial acute rhinosinusitis
Another patient has similar symptoms for more than 3 months. This patient has... -
Answers - chonic rhinosinusitis
A common cause of nasal obstruction that is easily corrected by surgery is ... - Answers
- deviated septum
Traid asthma (Samter's triad) consists of asthma, nasal polyposis, and... - Answers -
aspirin allergy (bad reaction)
Unilateral nasal polyps can either be caused by or be a manifestation of ??? and
therefore warrent referral to an otolaryngologist. - Answers - Neoplasm
ANSWERS
Abscessed teeth can rupture the medial mandibular cortex into the sublingual space.
This can cause the tongue to be pushed up and back. The biggest danger in this is loss
of... - Answers - Airway
The easiest way to ensure that the airway isn't lost in this isutation is to perform... -
Answers - A tracheotomy
Immunocompromised patients, especially patients with diabetes, can get a devastating
fungal infection of the sinuses called... - Answers - mucormycosis
Necrotizing otitis externa is a Pseudomonas infection of ????? and ????? which can
lead to fatal complications - Answers - EOC, skull base, temporal bone
Often ???? tissue is seen at the junction of the bony-cartilaginous junction in the
external auditory canal in patients with mecrotising otitis externa - Answers - granulation
The most common cause of a nosebleed in children is injury to vessels in.... - Answers -
Kisselbach's plexus
A posterior nosebleed in an adolsecent make is considered to be a ???? until proven
otherwise. - Answers - Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Two topical vasocontrictors often used in the nose are... - Answers - Oxymetazoline,
phenylephrine
The 3 most common organisms causing acute otitis media are... - Answers - S.
pneumonieae, H. influenza, Moraxella
The first-line antibiotic therapy for acute otitis media in children is - Answers -
Amoxicillin
Children with persistent otitis media with effusion for ??? months and evidence of
hearing loss are candidates for PE tube placement. - Answers - Three
Ear drainage in patients with PE tubes in place should be treated with - Answers -
Ototopical fluoroquinolone drops
The presence of bilateral fluid in the ears may cause up to ???? dB conductive hearing
loss. - Answers - 30-40dB
,It is important to examin the ???? in any adult with unilateral otitis media with effusion. -
Answers - Nasopharynx
In a patient with acute otitis media, in addition to being opaue and bulging, the ear drum
has ???? mobility on pneumatic otoscopy. - Answers - Decreased
The collection of trabeculated bony cavities lined with mucose and connected with the
middle ear is called the... - Answers - mastoid air cells
The pars flaccida (superior portion) of the eardrum can become ??? when there is
chronic megative pressure in the middle ear. - Answers - retracted
The outside of the TM, including the pars flaccida, is line with... - Answers - Squamous
epithelium
???? is suspected in a child presenting with gever, ear pain, a protruding auricle, and
fluctuance behind the ear. - Answers - Acute mastoiditis
In patients with chonic eustachian tube dysfunction, desquamated debris, consisting
mainly of keratin, cllects in the retracted pars flaccida. Over time, this can gow and
become a - Answers - cholesteatoma
If a patient presents with a draining ear, appropriate therapy includes drops, and -
Answers - oral antibiotics
???? is the furm submucosal scarring that can appear as a chalky white patch on the
eardrum. - Answers - Tympanosclerosis
If ear drainage persists depsite medical therapy, the patient requires referral to an
otolaryngologist to rule out - Answers - Cholesteatoma
The most common cause of conductive hearing loss in children is - Answers - Fluid in
the middle ear (otitis media)
The magnitude of a heraing loss is documented in the - Answers - Audiogram
The two major types of hearing loss are... - Answers - Conductive and sensorineural
Conductive hearing loss is present when air and bone conduction thresholds are... -
Answers - similar, approximate
Conductive hearing loss is present when there is a difference between ?? and ??
conduction thresholds. - Answers - Air and bone
Noise-induced hearing loss often produces a high frequency ??? in the audiogram. -
Answers - notch
, Otitis media with effusion produces a ???? tympanogram - Answers - Flat (type B)
Presbycusis produces a hearing loss that slopes to the ??? side of the audiogram -
Answers - right side, downward (Type C)
A patient with an asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss must be evaluated for the
potential of having an... - Answers - acoustic neuroma
Dizziness associated with an illusion of motion - Answers - Vertigo
Sudden vertigo that develops without ear symptoms and last for 24-48 hous is most
likely - Answers - Vestibular neuronitis or labyrinthitis
Vertigo precipitated by postional changes, lasting 10-60 seconds, and unassociated
with serious illness - Answers - Benign paroxysmal postional vertigo (BPPV)
Peripheral facial paralysis can be due to... - Answers - Tumor of parotid or skull base
infection
trauma
Facial paralysis with out an identified etiology - Answers - Bell's Palsy
Bell's palsy is commonly due to ??? and should be treated with ??? - Answers - Herpes
virus
treated with steroids and antivirals
A patient complains of fatuge, low-grade fever, purulent rhinorrhea, and HA that
resolves within 7 days. The most likely diagnosis is a... - Answers - Common cold
A patient had a typical cold that did not resolve in 10 days and has now had fatigue,
purulent rhinorrhea, low-grade fever, and HA for 3 weeks. The most likely diagnosis is...
- Answers - bacterial acute rhinosinusitis
Another patient has similar symptoms for more than 3 months. This patient has... -
Answers - chonic rhinosinusitis
A common cause of nasal obstruction that is easily corrected by surgery is ... - Answers
- deviated septum
Traid asthma (Samter's triad) consists of asthma, nasal polyposis, and... - Answers -
aspirin allergy (bad reaction)
Unilateral nasal polyps can either be caused by or be a manifestation of ??? and
therefore warrent referral to an otolaryngologist. - Answers - Neoplasm
