KROK 1 Stomatology 2013 – Question 179 · KROK (Dentistry)
A 20-year-old male got his tongue pierced. 5 months later a dense pale pink formation appeared in the zone of puncture. Biopsy revealed growing connective tissue with focal clusters of single polymorphonuclear neutrophils, fibroblasts, foreign body cells, lymphocytes and plasmocytes. What kind of pathological process developed in the tongue tissues?
- A. Tumour
- B. Nonspecific productive inflammation
- C. Fibrinous exudative inflammation
- D. Circulatory disturbance
- E. Purulent exudative inflammation
Hint
Consider which phase of inflammation is characterised by proliferation of connective tissue with a mixed cell infiltrate around a foreign body.
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