KROK 1 2016 – Question 104 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient died of cancerous cachexia with primary localization of cancer in the stomach. Autopsy revealed acutely enlarged liver with uneven surface and numerous protruding nodes; the nodes had clear margins in the section, rounded shape, gray-pink color, varying density, sometimes contained necrotic foci. Histologically: there are atypical cells in the nodes. What pathologic process occurred in the liver?
- A. Cancer metastases
- B. Infarction
- C. Hepatic cancer
- D. Abscesses
- E. Regeneratory nodes
Hint
Consider what multiple discrete nodes of atypical cells in a distant organ imply when a primary cancer is already known elsewhere.
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