KROK 1 2017 – Question 89 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a man, who served on a nuclear submarine, revealed the following pathologies: bone marrow atrophy (panmyelophthisis), anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, lymphocytes disintegration in the lymph nodes, spleen, gastrointestinal lymphatic system, and hemorrhages into the adrenal glands. What disease had developed in this case?
- A. Acute leukemia
- B. Decompression sickness
- C. Acute radiation sickness
- D. Vibration disease
- E. Acute anemia
Hint
Notice that the tissues hit hardest are those with the fastest cell turnover, and ask what exposure linked to the man's work could injure them all at once.
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