CME test.

To obtain CME credits, complete the test below, following these guidelines:

1. Read each article carefully.

2. Choose the most appropriate response to each of the following questions and record these on the registration form. Unanswered questions are considered incorrect.

3. Send the completed registration form and your payment (check, money order, VISA, MasterCard, American Express) to the Center for Continuing Education, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC).

4. After your test has been graded, you will receive a receipt, a copy of the correct answers, and a credit statement certifying completion from the UNMC. Questions about the test should be addressed to UNMC Center for Continuing Education (402-559-4152),

Credit: The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center, Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the ACCME Essentials.

1. According to Bach et al in this month's Esophagology Clinic, which of the following statements regarding esophageal squamous papillomas is correct?

a. They are rarely associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease.

b. They are never associated with human papillomavirus.

c. Their presence never should cause concern about the possibility of carcinoma.

d. None of the above.

2. Based on this month's Imaging Clinic by Rojas et al, which of these statements is not correct?

a. Fibrous dysplasia is a benign skeletal disorder.

b. There are three clinical forms of fibrous dysplasia.

c. The monostotic form of fibrous dysplasia may be an incidental radiographic finding.

d. Mucocele formation in frontal sinus fibrous dysplasia is not an infrequent complication.

3. The use of the posterior pharyngeal flap in sort palate reconstruction, according to a source cited by Sinha et al, was first described by Schoenborn in 1886.

True or False?

4. Which of the following tissue donor sites do Sinha et al state provides thin, pliable, and well-vascularized tissue?

a. radial forearm

b. tongue

c. forehead

d. check

5. According to Yanagisawa et ai in this month's Rhinoscopic Clinic, which of the following is not included in the differential diagnosis of capillary hemangioma?

a. hematomas

b. pyogenic granuloma

c. nasal polyps

d. arteriovenous malformation

6. The use of a bilobed flap in repairing surface defects of the nose was first described by Zitelli in 1918, according to Mobley in this month's Facial Plastic Surgery Clinic.

True or False?

7. According to a source cited in the article by Palacios et al, how many patients with nevoid basal cell carcinoma (Gorlin's) syndrome have no family history of the syndrome?

a. as many as one-fourth

b. more than one-half

c. as many as one-third

d. more than two-thirds

8. Which of the following statements regarding oral cicatricial pemphigoid is false, according to Nelson and Thompson in this month's Pathology Clinic?

a. It is a vesiculobullous disease of the skin that sometimes occurs in the oral cavity.

b. It is an autoimmune disease.

c. It is seen more frequently in women than in men.

d. It begins in the fourth to seventh decades of life.

9. According to Gungor et al, treatment based on which of the following skin-testing methods of allergy diagnosis is believed to provide symptom relief much more rapidly than the others?

a. treatment based on skin-prick testing

b. treatment based on skin endpoint titration

c. treatment based on the radioallergosorbent test

d. treatment based on nasal provocation testing

10. Allergic rhinitis occurs in what percentage of the U.S. population, according to a source cited by Gungor et al?

a. [greater than or equal to]10%

b. [greater than or equal to]20%

c. [greater than or equal to]30%

d. [greater than or equal to]40%

Ear, Nose and                                   Deadline:
Throat Journal                                  December 2004
January 2004

Circle the most appropriate answer.

 1. a      b   c       d

 2. a      b   c       d

 3. True       False

 4. a      b   c       d

 5. a      b   c       d

 6. True       False

 7. a      b   c       d

 8. a      b   c       d

 9. a      b   c       d

10. a      b   c       d

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