KROK 1 2015 – Question 195 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
During autopsy of a 9-month-old girl’s body, who died due to severe pneumonia complicated with sepsis, lack of thymus is observed. In the lymph nodes the lymphoid follicles and cortical substance are absent; follicles of spleen are reduced in size with no light zones and plasma cells. What is the cause of such structural changes?
- A. Thymus atrophy
- B. Thymus hypoplasia
- C. Accidental involution of thymus
- D. Thymus aplasia
- E. Thymus agenesis
Hint
Work out which lymphoid zones are empty and why, then ask whether the thymus was formed at all or was formed and later reduced.
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