KROK 1 2020 – Question 66 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of the body of an 18-year-old young man shows that the spleen weight is 580 grams, it is dark-red on section, spleen pulp easily scrapes off. Histologically, there is marked proliferation of reticular cells and a large number of mature neutrophils in the sinusoidal capillaries. In this case the spleen can be described as:
- A. Septic
- B. Cyanotic
- C. Sago
- D. Leukemia
- E. Porphyric
Hint
Ask which general disease process would pack the splenic sinusoids with mature neutrophils and leave a soft, easily scraped pulp.
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