KROK 1 2011 – Question 163 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient with tuberculosis died from progressing cardiopulmonary decompensation. Autopsy in the region of the right lung apex revealed a cavity 5 cm in diameter communicating with lumen of a segmental bronchus. On the inside cavity walls are covered with caseous masses with epithelioid and Langhans cells beneath them. What morphological form of tuberculosis is it?
- A. Tuberculoma
- B. Infiltrative tuberculosis
- C. Acute focal tuberculosis
- D. Acute cavernous tuberculosis
- E. Caseous pneumonia
Hint
Note the apical site, the size and the open connection with a bronchus, then decide which form of pulmonary tuberculosis is defined by a cavity rather than by a nodule or a consolidation.
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