KROK 1 2020 – Question 56 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of the body revealed a large wedge-shaped patch of a dense dark red tissue with clear margins in the upper lobe of the right lung. Histological examination detected there necrosis of the alveolar walls; the alveolar lumen is tightly packed with erythrocytes. What process occurred in the lungs?
- A. Gangrene
- B. Hemorrhage
- C. Atelectasis
- D. Hemorrhagic infarction
- E. Carneous degeneration
Hint
Consider what a wedge-shaped, sharply demarcated area with dead alveolar walls implies about the vessel that supplied that part of the lung.
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