KROK 1 2011 – Question 132 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 49-year-old patient with croupous pneumonia died from pneumococcal septicemia. Autopsy revealed up to 700 ml of turbid greenish-yellow foul-smelling liquid in the left pleural cavity. The pleural leaflets were dull and plethoric. What form of pleural inflammation is it?
- A. Phlegmon
- B. Chronic abscess
- C. Empyema
- D. Acute abscess
- E. Fibrinous inflammation
Hint
Pay attention to where the purulent fluid has collected, in a natural body cavity or within tissue, and how it is bounded.
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