NBCE PART IV CERTIFICATION EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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NBCE PART IV CERTIFICATION EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What is Grey Turner sign?? - Answer-bleeding into flank
What is Cullen sign?? - Answer-periumbilical ecchymosis
what test do we look for with mononucleosis?? - Answer-Monospot AKA Heterophile Agglutination AKA Paul Bunnell Te...
NBCE PART IV CERTIFICATION
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
What is Grey Turner sign?? - Answer-bleeding into flank
What is Cullen sign?? - Answer-periumbilical ecchymosis
what test do we look for with mononucleosis?? - Answer-Monospot AKA Heterophile
Agglutination AKA Paul Bunnell Test
Atypical cells found in mononucleosis?? - Answer-Downey cells
Which of the following affects the right side of the intestines??
a regional ileitis aka crohn's dx
b ulcerative colitis
c irritable bowel syndrome aka spastic colon - Answer-regional ileitis aka crohn's dx
Which of the following affects the left side of the intestines??
a regional ileitis aka crohn's dx
b ulcerative colitis
c irritable bowel syndrome aka spastic colon - Answer-ulcerative colitis
NOTE: both crohn's and ulcerative colitis can lead to enteropathic arthritis - Answer-
check
increased WBC count is what kind of shilling shift?? - Answer-LEFT
what is the difference between rebound tenderness and Blumberg's rebound
tenderness?? - Answer-Blumberg's is only done at McBurney's point.... rebound can be
done everywhere else
What is the verbal component for Rosving's?? (LLQ rebound tenderness--> pain at RLQ
- Answer-More pain on release than there was with pressure
specific diagnosis used for appendicitis is what?? - Answer-CT scan
urethritis is most commonly caused by what in females and what in males?? - Answer-
Females = E. Coli
Males = N. Gonorrhea
, What is the verbal component for listening to the bowels?? - Answer-Diaphragm -
listening for peristalsis and paralytic ileus
Bell - listening for bruits
What are we listening for during percussion of the abdomen?? - Answer-Tympany
NOTE: waveform sign: have patient separate abdomen with ulnar part of hand; press on
one side and feel other side rise = + for ascites - Answer-check
NOTE: shifting dullness is
1 tympanic in stomach as patient lies supine
2 as patients leans on left side; left side is tympanic; Right side is dull = + for ascites -
Answer-check
does intermittent claudication deal with neruogenic or vascular?? - Answer-vascular -
pain appears while walking and disappears after rest
Increased BUN indicates what type of disease?? - Answer-Renal
Decreased BUN indicates what type of disease?? - Answer-Hepatic
Increased creatinine will be seen in what?? - Answer-renal disease
decreased creatinine will be seen in what?? - Answer-muscular dystrophies
NOTE: HLA B27 will be + for all of PEAR - Answer-check
what disease is specific for immunoelectrophoresis?? - Answer-Multiple myeloma
What condition can be recognized with DECREASED cholesterol and triglycerides?? -
Answer-cirrhosis
RA Latex tests for what in the blood?? - Answer-Rheumatoid factor
The horns (dorsal, lateral, and white) are in gray matter or white matter?? - Answer-gray
the lateral horn is present where?? - Answer-T1-L2 (sympathetic motor to all organs)
The posterior columns (proprioception) are most commonly affected in what two
diseases?? - Answer-1 Multiple Sclerosis
2 Diabetes
Name three tests to perform to test integrity of posterior columns - Answer-1 Romberg's
with eyes closed
(Eyes open will test cerebellum)
2 Stereognosis
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