KROK 1 2017 – Question 23 · 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. Polypoid chronic bronchitis
- D. Acute bronchitis
- E. Squamous cell metaplasia of bronchial mucosa
Hint
Ask what the combination of cellular and tissue atypia with pearly bodies says about the biological behaviour of the process in the bronchial mucosa.
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