KROK 1 2017 – Question 77 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 9-year-old child shows numerous irregular defects of varying depth with uneven margins and gray-white films tightly attached to the underlying tissue on the rectal mucosa of the body. What disease can be suspected?
- A. Typhoid fever
- B. Dysentery
- C. Amebiasis
- D. Salmonellosis
- E. Cholera
Hint
Think about the segment of the bowel involved and about which kind of inflammation forms tightly attached grey-white films that leave irregular ulcers when shed.
The answer, the explanation and a note on every option are available once you log in. The account is free: topic tests, a mock exam, mistake review and statistics.
More questions on Pathomorphology
- A 40-year-old prisoner died of tuberculosis in the corrective labor camp. Autopsy of the body revealed deformation and diminishing of both lung…
- A 7-year-old boy died of acute posthemorrhagic anemia caused by profuse hemorrhage in the gastrointestinal tract. Postmortem study revealed the…
- Autopsy of a man, who served on a nuclear submarine, revealed the following pathologies: bone marrow atrophy (panmyelophthisis), anemia, leukopenia…
- After sensitization a test animal received subcutaneously a dose of antigen. At the site of injection a fibrinous inflammation developed with…
- Brain autopsy revealed an edema, hyperemia, and small hemorrhages in the medulla oblongata. Microscopically chromatolysis, hydropia and nerve cell…
- A worker of an agricultural enterprise had been suffering from an acute disease with aggravating intoxication signs, which resulted in his death. On…