COMSAE PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ What tumor?
-mucous, from surface epithelium
-multiocular cyst
-benign, intestine like tissue.. Answer: Mucinous Cystadenoma
▶ What tumor?
-pseudomyxoma peritonei (jelly belly - appendix). Answer: Mucinous
Cystadenocarcinoma
▶ What tumor?
-Meig's Triad ("answer to this card", ascites and hydrothorax)
-bundles of spindle shaped fibroblasts. Answer: Fibromas
▶ What tumor?
-secretes estrogen = precocious puberty in young kids & can cause
endometrial hyperplasia or carcinoma in adults
-Call-exner bodies (small follicles filled with eosinophilic secretions.)
-abnormal uterine bleeding in adults.. Answer: Granulosa theca cell tumor
▶ GnRH analog with:
AGONIST properties when used in a PULSATILE fashion
ANTAGONIST properties when used in CONTINUOUS fashion (down
regulates GnRH receptor in pituitary which leads to a decrease in FSH/LH)
Indication?. Answer: Leuprolide
, Indication:
infertility (pulsatile)
prostate cancer (continuous w/flutamide)
uterine fibroids (continuous)
precocious puberty (continuous)
▶ agonist at androgen receptors.
used to treat hypogonadism and promotes development of secondary sex
characteristics
stimulation of anabolism to promote recovery after burn or injury
causes masculinization in females. Answer: Testosterone,
methyltestosterone
▶ antiandrogen - is a 5 alpha reductase inhibitor that decreases the
conversion of testosterone to DHT
useful in BPH
it promotes hair growth so it can be used in male pattern baldness..
Answer: finasteride
"to prevent male pattern hair loss, give a drug that will encourage female
breast growth."
▶ a nonsteroidal competitive inhibitor of androgens at the testosterone
receptor
used in prostate carcinoma.. Answer: Flutamide
▶ inhibits steroid binding
used to prevent hirsutism.
side effects of gynecomastia and amenorrhea
DETAILED SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ What tumor?
-mucous, from surface epithelium
-multiocular cyst
-benign, intestine like tissue.. Answer: Mucinous Cystadenoma
▶ What tumor?
-pseudomyxoma peritonei (jelly belly - appendix). Answer: Mucinous
Cystadenocarcinoma
▶ What tumor?
-Meig's Triad ("answer to this card", ascites and hydrothorax)
-bundles of spindle shaped fibroblasts. Answer: Fibromas
▶ What tumor?
-secretes estrogen = precocious puberty in young kids & can cause
endometrial hyperplasia or carcinoma in adults
-Call-exner bodies (small follicles filled with eosinophilic secretions.)
-abnormal uterine bleeding in adults.. Answer: Granulosa theca cell tumor
▶ GnRH analog with:
AGONIST properties when used in a PULSATILE fashion
ANTAGONIST properties when used in CONTINUOUS fashion (down
regulates GnRH receptor in pituitary which leads to a decrease in FSH/LH)
Indication?. Answer: Leuprolide
, Indication:
infertility (pulsatile)
prostate cancer (continuous w/flutamide)
uterine fibroids (continuous)
precocious puberty (continuous)
▶ agonist at androgen receptors.
used to treat hypogonadism and promotes development of secondary sex
characteristics
stimulation of anabolism to promote recovery after burn or injury
causes masculinization in females. Answer: Testosterone,
methyltestosterone
▶ antiandrogen - is a 5 alpha reductase inhibitor that decreases the
conversion of testosterone to DHT
useful in BPH
it promotes hair growth so it can be used in male pattern baldness..
Answer: finasteride
"to prevent male pattern hair loss, give a drug that will encourage female
breast growth."
▶ a nonsteroidal competitive inhibitor of androgens at the testosterone
receptor
used in prostate carcinoma.. Answer: Flutamide
▶ inhibits steroid binding
used to prevent hirsutism.
side effects of gynecomastia and amenorrhea
