KROK 1 2015 – Question 9 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 67-year-old patient with clinical diagnosis of chronic bronchitis, pneumosclerosis, and cardiopulmonary decompensation has the biopsy material taken from the suspicious area in his right bronchus mucosa. Cellular and tissue atypism along with pearly bodies can be histologically detected. What pathologic process is characterized by the described histological changes?
- A. Bronchiectasis
- B. Squamous cell carcinoma of bronchus with keratinization
- C. Squamous cell metaplasia of bronchial mucosa
- D. Acute bronchitis
- E. Polypoid chronic bronchitis
Hint
Think about which biopsy findings separate a malignant epithelial tumour from a reversible adaptive change or an inflammatory process.
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