KROK 1 2020 – Question 140 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A patient presents with acute attack of choledocholithiasis. Laboratory examination of the patient’s feces will likely to show the following in this case:
- A. Partially digested cellulose
- B. Starch granules
- C. Positive reaction to stercobilin
- D. Connective tissue
- E. Negative reaction to stercobilin
Hint
Follow bile pigments from the liver to the intestine and ask which fecal finding changes when bile cannot enter the gut.
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