KROK 1 2023 – Question 39 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Five days after a diarrhea onset, colonoscopy detected gray-green filmy deposits tightly attached to the underlying tissue in the inflamed rectal mucosa of the patient. What disease can be characterized by these pathological changes?
- A. Typhoid fever
- B. Crohn’s disease
- C. Salmonellosis
- D. Nonspecific ulcerative colitis
- E. Dysentery
Hint
Think about the stages of an acute infectious colitis: after the catarrhal phase, a firmly adherent fibrinous film appears on the rectosigmoid mucosa within several days.
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