KROK 1 2011 – Question 8 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a patient who suffered from croupous pneumonia and died from pneumococcal sepsis revealed 900 ml of turbid greenish-yellow liquid in the right pleural cavity. Pleural leaves are dull, plethoric. Name the clinicopathological form of inflammation in the pleural cavity:
- A. Empyema
- B. Chronic abscess
- C. Phlegmon
- D. Fibrinous inflammation
- E. Acute abscess
Hint
Decide what kind of exudate has accumulated here and whether it lies free in a natural cavity or inside tissue, then pick the matching clinicopathological term.
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