Pathology EMQ template

YourName: Pablo de Vena Franks

YourIdentifier: 452263

Theme: Cytopathology

OPTION LIST

A	MALARIA	I	CROUT-FELT YAKULT DISEASE
B	DENGUE FEVER	J	ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
C	NON-HOGKIN’S LYMPHOMA	K	HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA
D	MULTIPLE MYELOMA	L	BREAST CANCER
E	TUBERCULOSIS	M	HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE
F	PARKINSON’S DISEASE	N	CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA
G	YELLOW FEVER	O	PRION DISEASE
H	EBOLA VIRUS	P	VAN WINKLE DISEASE

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

1. Cells may be found with two nuclei resembling the eyes of a certain nocturnal bird.

2. In this disease/condition you are likely to find granuloma formation with T and B lymphocytes, as well as fibroblasts, surrounding marcophages.

3. Accumulation of abnormally folded proteins within cells is characteristic of this disease.

4. Dense, insoluble, extracellular plaques of amyloid-beta protein are found around neurones in this disease…

5. Necrotic bodies known as ‘councilman bodies’ are found in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes of people with this disease. Furthermore, you wouldn’t be likely to get this unless you went to the Amazon or sub-saharan Africa.

ANSWERS

1. k

2. e

3. o

4. J

5. g