Listed below are questions based on articles that appeared in last month's print edition of the ARCHIVES. Registered continuing medical education participants should use the March 2005 answer sheet to answer these questions.
1. Eosinophilic infiltration of the esophageal mucosa is not a specific diagnostic feature of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
True or False?
(from Is There a Set of Histologie Changes That Are Invariably Reflux Associated?-Takubo et al)
2. The cytokeratin expression of gastric cardia mucosa is:
a. CK7 negative CK20 negative
b. CK7 positive CK20 negative
c. CK7 negative C20 positive
d. CK7 positive CK20 positive
e. CK8 positive CK19 negative
(from Is Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction or Cardia Different From Barrett Adenocarcinoma?-Ectors et al)
3. Monophasic spindle subtype of synovial sarcomas has immunohistochemical and ultrastructural evidence of mesenchymal differentiation.
True or False?
(from Primary Renal Synovial Sarcoma Confirmed by Cytogenetic Analysis-Shannon et al)
4. The most common inherited risk factor for venous thromboembolism is:
a. factor VIII deficiency
b. familial hemochromatosis
c. diabetes mellitus
d. familial hyperlipidemia
e. factor V Leiden with activated protein C resistance
(from Extensive Aortic Thromboembolism Due to Acquired Hypercoagulable State-Zhang et al)
5. Estrogen receptors are detectable in the prostatic urethra.
True or False?
(from Estrogen Receptor Expression in Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder and Ovarian Transitional Cell Carcinoma-Croft et al)
6. Systemic mast cell disease is frequently associated with:
a. myeloproliferative disorders
b. hypereosinophilic syndrome
c. myelodysplastic syndromes
d. a and b
e. a and c
(from Evaluation of Mast Cells in Myeloproliferative Disorders and Myelodysplastic Syndromes-Dunphy)
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