KROK 1 2011 – Question 183 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 45-year-old woman has breast cancer. Her left arm has symptoms of lymphatic system insufficiency - limb edema, lymph node enlargement. What form of lymphatic circulation insufficiency is it?
- A. Mechanic insufficiency
- B. Dynamic insufficiency
- C. Resorption insufficiency
- D. Combined insufficiency
- E. -
Hint
Ask what a growing breast tumour does to the lymph vessels and axillary nodes that drain the arm, and classify the insufficiency by that primary cause.
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