KROK 1 Stomatology 2012 – Question 84 · KROK (Dentistry)
Examination of a 40-year-old man ill with stenosing (without metastases) esophageal carcinoma revealed the following changes: atrophy of skeletal muscles and fatty tissue. His skin is sallow, epidermis is attenuated, heart has grown smaller. Myocardium and liver are brown. What is the most probable diagnosis?
- A. Brown atrophy
- B. Addison’s disease
- C. Cancerous cachexia
- D. Myasthenia
- E. Alimentary cachexia
Hint
Focus on why this patient wastes: a non-metastatic tumour that mechanically narrows the esophagus.
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