FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
APRIL 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
PATHOLOGY
PAPER III
PATHO/APRIL/16/32/III
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. Placental pathology in hypertensive diseases of pregnancy.
Molecular genetics of colonic cancer.
5+5
2. Lab diagnosis of myocardial infarction.
Diabetic nephropathy its pathogenesis, morphology
diagnosis.
5+5
3. Role of immunohistochemistry of bone tumors.
Role of H.pylori in pathogenesis of gastric disease.
5+5
4. Define nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its
components.
Pathogenesis, morphology and diagnosis of NAFLD.
3+7
5. Define Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Give its
pathogenesis and morphological features.
Heat shock proteins.
7+3
6. Pigmented tumors of skin.
Pathology of Alzheimer's disease.
5+5
7. Differential diagnosis of epithelial/myoepithelial proliferations of
salivary glands.
Granulomatous lesions of thyroid.
5+5
8. Histological predictors in chronic ulcerative colitis.
Gastrointestinal endocrine tumors morphological, histochemical
ultrastructural changes.
5+5
9. Enumerate hormone secreting tumors.
Give differentiating features of various ovarian hormone
producing neoplasms.
3+7
10. Name various smooth muscle proliferations of uterus and their
diagnostic morphological features.
Classification and pathogenesis of germ cell tumors.
Morphology of endodermal sinus tumor.