KROK 1 2016 – Question 7 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient suffers from high fever, apnoea, pain in the thorax on the right. Pleurocentesis yielded 700 ml of yellow-green viscous liquid. Make the diagnosis:
- A. Hemorrhagic pleurisy
- B. Pleural empyema
- C. Pleural carcinomatosis
- D. Serous pleurisy
- E. Bronchial pneumonia
Hint
Consider what the colour and consistency of the fluid obtained by puncture say about its cell content and the type of inflammation.
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