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Soft Tissue Tumours MCQs with Answers

1. The term soft tissue tumours includes:
A. Mesodermal tissue
B. Epithelial tissues
C. Reticuloendothelial tissues
D. Glial tissue

2. Nodular fasciitis has the following features except:
A. It is an inflammatory condition
B. Local excision is curative
C. There are whorls of fibroblasts
D. There is mild nuclear atypia and mitosis

3. Desmoid tumour has the following characteristics except:
A. It has an aggressive behaviour
B. The lesion is generally solitary and unencapsulated
C. It has pleomorphic fibroblasts having moderate mitotic activity
D. It may be abdominal or extra-abdominal

4. The following lesions generally do not metastasise except:
A. Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
B. Fibrosarcoma
C. Granular cell myoblastoma
D. Fibromatosis

5. The most common soft tissue sarcoma is:
A. Fibrosarcoma
B. Rhabdomyosarcoma
C. Liposarcoma
D. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma

6. The commonest soft tissue sarcoma in children is:
A. Liposarcoma
B. Rhabdomyosarcoma
C. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
D. Synovial sarcoma

7. Synovial sarcoma has the following characteristics except:
A. It generally arises from synovial tissues
B. It has a biphasic growth pattern
C. It always grows within joint cavities
D. Most common locations are extremities

8. Granular cell myoblastoma is seen most frequently in:

  1. A. Extremities
  2. B. Trunk
  3. C. Tongue
  4. D. Visceral organs

9. The term pseudomalignant osseous tumour is used for the following condition:

  1. A. Myositis ossificans
  2. B. Osteochondroma
  3. C. Osteoid osteoma
  4. D. Osteoblastoma

10. The following tumour is characterised by biphasic pattern of growth:
A. Osteosarcoma
B. Osteochondroma
C. Synovial sarcoma
D. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma

11. All of the following sarcomas are composed of small round cells except:
A. PNET
B. Neuroblastoma
C. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
D. Synovial sarcoma

12. Pick the odd one out:
A. SMA – Smooth muscle tumours
B. S-100 – Skeletal muscle tumours
C. Factor VIII – Vascular tumours
D. LCA – lymphoid cells

13. Which of the following is associated with Gardner’s syndrome?

  1. A. Abdominal desmoids
  2. B. Extra-abdominal desmoids
  3. C. Intra-abdominal desmoids
  4. D. Plantar fibromatosis

14. All are histologic variants of liposarcoma except:

  1. A. Myxoid liposarcoma
  2. B. Round cell liposarcoma
  3. C. Pleomorphic liposarcoma
  4. D. Dedifferentiated liposarcoma

15. Which one of the following variants of rhabdomyosarcoma is seen in adulthood?

  1. A. Embryonal
  2. B. Botryoid
  3. C. Alveolar
  4. D. Pleomorphic

Answers Key

1) = A, 2) = A, 3) = C, 4) = B, 5) = D, 6) = B, 7) = C, 8) = C, 9) = A, 10) = C, 11) = D, 12) = B, 13) = C, 14) = D, 15) = D