KROK 1 2011 – Question 72 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 1.5-year-old child revealed haemorrhagic skin rash, moderate hyperaemia and edema of nasopharyngeal mucous membrane, small haemorrhages in the mucous membranes and internal organs; dramatic dystrophic alterations in liver and myocardium; acute necrotic nephrosis; massive haemorrhages in the adrenal glands. What disease are these alterations the most typical for?
- A. Meningococcal infection
- B. Epidemic typhus
- C. Scarlet fever
- D. Measles
- E. Diphtheria
Hint
Combine the child's age, the haemorrhagic skin and organ lesions and the massive bleeding into the adrenal glands to decide which fulminant disease produces this picture.
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