KROK 1 2012 – Question 136 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 75 year old patient who had been suffering from disseminated atherosclerosis and died under chronic cardiac failure revealed constriction and deformation of coronary arteries, tuberous intima whose section appeared to be white and petrosal. Specify the stage of atherosclerosis morphogenesis:
- A. Bilipid
- B. Lipoidosis
- C. Liposclerosis
- D. Atheromatosis
- E. Atherocalcinosis
Hint
Place this finding in the sequence of atherosclerotic morphogenesis, paying attention to the hard, white, deformed vessel wall.
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