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.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
PAPER III
NUC.MED/APRIL/16/24/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. How would you manage pulmonary metastasis from
differentiated carcinoma thyroid in children in the light of new
2015 ATA guidelines?
10
2. Use of Nuclear Medicine techniques in:
Hyperparathyroidism.
Pleural mesothelioma.
5
5
3. Role of Nuclear Medicine in the management of
neuroblastomas.
10
4. Nuclear medicine in the diagnosis of:
Meningiomas.
Fever of unknown origin.
5
5
5. Management of Graves' ophthalmopathy.
10
6. Various tyrosine kinase inhibitors in the management of radioiodine
resistant thyroid cancer.
10
7. Ra-223
Lu-177
5
5
8. Radionuclide imaging of early breast cancer stage(I/II).
10
9. Role of FDG PET/CT in the management of stage III/IV nonsmall
cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
10
10. A 45-year-old male non-smoker recently developed level II
nodal mass. On FNAC it turns out to be SCC. What shall be
the Nuclear Medicine technique(s) in the management of this
patient?
10