Musculoskeletal Key

Chapter 38 Valvular and congenital heart disease Questions What are the main clinical effects of cardiac valvular disease? What is rheumatic fever? What are the most common forms of congenital…

Chapter 61 Endocrine pathology Questions Which diseases can result from hyperplasia or atrophy of endocrine glands? What are the most common tumours that arise within the thyroid gland? What is…

Chapter 42 Pneumonia Questions What is pneumonia? What are the clinical and pathological features of pneumonia? The term pneumonia is most commonly used to indicate the presence of a lung…

Chapter 60 Arthritis Questions What are the most common forms of arthritis? What are the factors that predispose to the development of osteoarthritis? What are the extra-articular manifestations of rheumatoid…

Chapter 58 Alzheimer’s disease Questions What factors predispose to the development of Alzheimer’s disease? What changes are seen in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease? Dementia can be defined as an…

Chapter 45 Asthma Question What is asthma? What are its clinical and pathological features? What are the four types of immune hypersensitivity? The term asthma refers to a group of…

Chapter 25 Prognostic factors in neoplasia Questions How do neoplasms cause death? How do we predict the clinical behaviour of neoplasms? The predicted clinical outcome for a patient with a…

Chapter 9 Causes of cell injury Questions How may cells and tissues become injured? Why is cellular injury important in the development of disease? There is a wide variety of…

Chapter 41 Hypertension and hypertensive heart disease Questions What are the main risk factors for hypertension? What changes are seen in the heart and blood vessels in hypertension? What are…

Chapter 17 Basic immunology Questions What are the functions of the immune system? What is cellular and humoral immunity? How does the immune system carry out its functions? Cellular immunity…