KROK 1 2018 – Question 100 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of the body of a man, who for a long time had been working at the factory with high content of silicon dioxide in the air, revealed enlarged dense lungs with numerous round and oval sclerotic foci. The foci were miliary and larger in size and colored gray or gray-black. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- A. Asbestosis
- B. Anthracosilicosis
- C. Diffuse sclerotic silicosis
- D. Nodular silicosis
- E. Silicoanthracosis
Hint
Match the dust and the shape and size of the fibrotic foci to a pattern of pneumoconiosis, asking whether the fibrosis is spread diffusely or forms separate round lesions.
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