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:
- A. Extremities
- B. Trunk
- C. Tongue
- D. Visceral organs
9. The term pseudomalignant osseous tumour is used for the following condition:
- A. Myositis ossificans
- B. Osteochondroma
- C. Osteoid osteoma
- 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?
- A. Abdominal desmoids
- B. Extra-abdominal desmoids
- C. Intra-abdominal desmoids
- D. Plantar fibromatosis
14. All are histologic variants of liposarcoma except:
- A. Myxoid liposarcoma
- B. Round cell liposarcoma
- C. Pleomorphic liposarcoma
- D. Dedifferentiated liposarcoma
15. Which one of the following variants of rhabdomyosarcoma is seen in adulthood?
- A. Embryonal
- B. Botryoid
- C. Alveolar
- 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