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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A 15-year-old patient has a numb lower lip and pain in the right posterior mandible. A
radiograph shows slight thickening of the periodontal membrane space of tooth no.
30. The tooth shows slightly reduced vitality to electric pulp testing. Which of the
following should be included in a differential diagnosis?
a. Periapical cyst
b. Periapical granuloma
c. Traumatic bone cyst
d. Benign odontogenic neoplasm
e. Malignancy
ANS: E
4. All of the following are signs or symptoms that are associated with malignancy in the
jaw except:
a. Uniformly widened periodontal membrane space around a tooth (teeth)
b. Vertical tooth mobility
c. Hypercementosis
d. Premature loss of deciduous teeth
e. Acquired malocclusion
ANS: C
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6. The Epstein-Barr virus may be associated with the etiology and pathogenesis of which
of the following jaw lesions?
a. Garrs disease
b. Ewings tumor
c. Burkitts lymphoma
d. Central giant cell granuloma
e. Osteogenesis imperfecta
ANS: C
8. Which of the following malignancies of the jaws characteristically affects the older
adult population?
a. Sarcoma
b. Burkitts lymphoma
c. Ewings tumor
d. Metastatic adenocarcinoma to jaws
e. None of the above
ANS: D
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10. An ill-defined radiolucent and radiopaque lesion in the maxilla of a 65-year-old
woman was biopsied. Histologically, it was a solid neoplasm composed of malignant
plasma cells. This most likely represents which of the following?
a. Multiple myeloma
b. Ameloblastic fibroma
c. Fibrous dysplasia
d. Osteoblastoma
e. Osteosarcoma
ANS: A
REF: Chap 14 (Multiple myeloma/Histopathology/Differential diagnosis), pp 341342
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