KROK 1 2008 – Question 41 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a man who had been working as a miner for many years and died from cardiopulmonary decompensation revealed that his lungs were airless, sclerosed, their apexes had emphysematous changes, the lung surface was greyish-black, the incised lung tissue was coal-black. What disease caused death?
- A. Silicosis
- B. Talcosis
- C. Anthracosis
- D. Asbestosis
- E. Aluminosis
Hint
Consider the dust a miner inhales over many years and the characteristic colour it gives to lung tissue; the picture combines pigment deposition with sclerosis and emphysema.
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