COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
2026/2027
◉Headache sign . Answer: Precipitated by Valsalva maneuver
◉Headache sign . Answer: New onset after age 50
◉Headache sign . Answer: Relieved with use of common analgesics
◉Cerebral arteries during migraine . Answer: They dilate
◉Patient evaluation for bipolar disorder . Answer: Severe mood swings,
easily distracted, constantly corrects teachers
◉Symptom indicating high suspicion for bipolar disorder . Answer:
Blurts out answers in class inappropriately
◉Risk factor associated with breast cancer . Answer: Use of hormone
replacement therapy
◉Risk factor associated with breast cancer . Answer: Personal or family
history of breast cancer
,◉Risk factor associated with breast cancer . Answer: Postmenopausal
obesity
◉Risk factor associated with breast cancer . Answer: Low
socioeconomic status
◉Presentation of a woman with bulimia . Answer: Very underweight
◉Medication for relieving acute wheezing in asthma . Answer: Short
acting beta agonist
◉Medication responsible for incontinence and confusion in an 80 year
old patient . Answer: Tagamet (cimetidine)
◉Symptom suggesting hyperandrogenism in an adolescent female .
Answer: Hirsutism
◉Synovial joint . Answer: Shoulder
◉Change accounting for decreased digoxin levels in a patient with atrial
fibrillation . Answer: Regular use of an antacid
, ◉Medication contraindicated in a child with acute sinusitis . Answer:
Nasal steroids
◉Lower extremity calf pain associated with peripheral artery disease .
Answer: Dull aching or cramping
◉Jugular venous distention accompanied by chest pain . Answer: Heart
failure
◉Immunization protecting against a virus transmitted through blood and
body fluids . Answer: Hepatitis B
◉Likely diagnosis for a pediatric patient with scaling on the scalp and
round patches of hair loss . Answer: Tinea capitis
◉Likely diagnosis for a 70 year old patient with a sore mouth
preventing eating and a beefy red, glossy smooth tongue . Answer:
Pernicious anemia due to insufficient intrinsic factor
◉Likely diagnosis for a 62 year old male with leg pain and occasional
numbness worse with ambulation and improved with lumbar flexion .
Answer: Spinal stenosis
◉Symptom associated with primary syphilis . Answer: A single
painless genital lesion