KROK 1 2020 – Question 54 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Histology of the liver of a deceased, who was an injection drug user, revealed the following: hydropic degeneration of hepatocytes, ground glass hepatocytes, acidophilic Councilman bodies, lymphocytic-macrophageal infiltrations in the portal tracts. What is the most likely etiology of this disease?
- A. Toxic
- B. Fungal
- C. Bacterial
- D. Parasitic
- E. Viral
Hint
Consider what the cytoplasmic change and the cell-death pattern in the hepatocytes, with a mononuclear portal infiltrate, suggest about the class of agent, and what the injection route adds.
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