KROK 1 2013 – Question 55 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Study of the biopsy material revealed a granuloma consisting of lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages with foamy cytoplasm (Mikulicz cells), many hyaline globules. What disease can you think of?
- A. Actinomycosis
- B. Rhinoscleroma
- C. Syphilis
- D. Tuberculosis
- E. Leprosy
Hint
Match this combination of foamy macrophages and hyaline globules in a plasma-cell-rich granuloma to the chronic infection that produces it, noting that caseation is not described.
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