KROK 1 Stomatology 2012 – Question 135 · KROK (Dentistry)
Autopsy of a 75-year-old patient who had been suffering from disseminated atherosclerosis and died under chronic cardiac failure revealed constriction and deformation of coronary arteries, tuberous intima whose section appeared to be white and petrosal. Specify the stage of atherosclerosis morphogenesis:
- A. Prelipid
- B. Liposclerosis
- C. Lipoidosis
- D. Atheromatosis
- E. Atherocalcinosis
Hint
Focus on the description of the intima as white, stony-hard and tuberous on section, and match it to the final stage of plaque evolution.
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