KROK 1 Stomatology 2015 – Question 165 · KROK (Dentistry)
Preventive examination of a 55-year-old patient revealed type II diabetes mellitus. An endocrinologist revealed an increase in body weight and liver enlargement. The man is non-smoker and doesn’t abuse alcohol but likes to have a good meal. Histological examination by means of diagnostic liver puncture revealed that the hepatocytes were enlarged mostly on the lobule periphery, their cytoplasm had transparent vacuoles showing positive reaction with sudan III. What liver pathology was revealed?
- A. Fatty hepatosis
- B. Alcohol hepatitis
- C. Portal liver cirrhosis
- D. Chronic viral hepatitis
- E. Acute viral hepatitis
Hint
Note that the vacuoles stain with Sudan III and that there is no alcohol abuse or inflammatory infiltrate in a patient with obesity and type II diabetes.
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