KROK 1 2014 – Question 32 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
As a result of careless handling of an iron, a 34-year-old female patient has got acute pain, redness, swelling of her right index finger. A few minutes later, there appeared a blister filled with a transparent liquid of straw-yellow color. The described changes are a manifestation of the following pathological process:
- A. Vacuolar degeneration
- B. Exudative inflammation
- C. Traumatic edema
- D. Alternative inflammation
- E. Proliferative inflammation
Hint
Think about which tissue reaction dominates when redness and swelling are followed by clear fluid collecting under the skin, and what vascular change makes this fluid.
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