Practice Question Answers: Paraneoplastic Skin Conditions, Part 1

1. What malignancy is most commonly associated with alopecia neoplastica?

a. breast cancer
b. gastric cancer
c. lung cancer
d. pancreatic cancer
e. renal cancer

2. What urine test would be ordered for a patient with suspected carcinoid syndrome?

a. cortisol
b. histamines
c. 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid
d. protein level
e. vanillylmandelic acid

3. Which type of amyloid should a patient with multiple myeloma and primary systemic amyloidosis exhibit?

a. protein derived from β-amyloid protein
b. protein derived from β2-microglobulin protein
c. protein derived from immunoglobulin light chains
d. protein derived from keratin
e. protein derived from serum amyloid A protein, an acute-phase reactant

4. Antiepiligrin pemphigoid is most commonly characterized by autoantibody production against:

a. β4-integrin
b. bullous pemphigoid antigen 2
c. laminin-6
d. laminin-332
e. type VII collagen

5. What is the most common malignancy seen in patients who are diagnosed with acquired ichthyosis?

a. chronic lymphocytic leukemia
b. Hodgkin lymphoma
c. multiple myeloma
d. non-Hodgkin lymphoma
e. Waldenström macroglobulinemia

1. What malignancy is most commonly associated with alopecia neoplastica?

a. breast cancer
b. gastric cancer
c. lung cancer
d. pancreatic cancer
e. renal cancer

2. What urine test would be ordered for a patient with suspected carcinoid syndrome?

a. cortisol
b. histamines
c. 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid
d. protein level
e. vanillylmandelic acid

3. Which type of amyloid should a patient with multiple myeloma and primary systemic amyloidosis exhibit?

a. protein derived from β-amyloid protein
b. protein derived from β2-microglobulin protein
c. protein derived from immunoglobulin light chains
d. protein derived from keratin
e. protein derived from serum amyloid A protein, an acute-phase reactant

4. Antiepiligrin pemphigoid is most commonly characterized by autoantibody production against:

a. β4-integrin
b. bullous pemphigoid antigen 2
c. laminin-6
d. laminin-332
e. type VII collagen

5. What is the most common malignancy seen in patients who are diagnosed with acquired ichthyosis?

a. chronic lymphocytic leukemia
b. Hodgkin lymphoma
c. multiple myeloma
d. non-Hodgkin lymphoma
e. Waldenström macroglobulinemia

1. What malignancy is most commonly associated with alopecia neoplastica?

a. breast cancer
b. gastric cancer
c. lung cancer
d. pancreatic cancer
e. renal cancer

2. What urine test would be ordered for a patient with suspected carcinoid syndrome?

a. cortisol
b. histamines
c. 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid
d. protein level
e. vanillylmandelic acid

3. Which type of amyloid should a patient with multiple myeloma and primary systemic amyloidosis exhibit?

a. protein derived from β-amyloid protein
b. protein derived from β2-microglobulin protein
c. protein derived from immunoglobulin light chains
d. protein derived from keratin
e. protein derived from serum amyloid A protein, an acute-phase reactant

4. Antiepiligrin pemphigoid is most commonly characterized by autoantibody production against:

a. β4-integrin
b. bullous pemphigoid antigen 2
c. laminin-6
d. laminin-332
e. type VII collagen

5. What is the most common malignancy seen in patients who are diagnosed with acquired ichthyosis?

a. chronic lymphocytic leukemia
b. Hodgkin lymphoma
c. multiple myeloma
d. non-Hodgkin lymphoma
e. Waldenström macroglobulinemia