KROK 1 2017 – Question 68 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 40-year-old man developed skin redness and swelling in the neck area, where eventually a small abscess appeared. On section the focus is dense and yellow-green colored. In the purulent masses there are white granules. Histologically there are fungal druses, plasma and xanthome cells, and macrophages detected. Specify the most correct etiological name of this pathological process:
- A. Carbuncle
- B. Actinomycosis
- C. Leprosy
- D. Syphilis
- E. Furuncle
Hint
Concentrate on the white granules in the pus and what the histology says they consist of, then ask which chronic infection forms such druses.
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