KROK 1 2008 – Question 54 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A man with a wound of his limb that had been suppurating for a long time died from intoxication. Autopsy revealed extreme emaciation, dehydration, brown atrophy of liver, myocardium, spleen and cross-striated muscles as well as renal amyloidosis. What diagnosis corresponds with the described picture?
- A. Septicopyemia
- B. Septicemia
- C. Chernogubov’s syndrome
- D. Chroniosepsis
- E. Brucellosis
Hint
Look at the time course: a long-standing purulent focus, exhaustion with brown atrophy of organs and amyloid deposition points to a protracted form of general infection.
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