KROK 1 2008 – Question 200 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a man ill with severe hypothyroidism revealed that connective tissue, organ stroma, adipose and cartilaginous tissues were swollen, semitransparent, mucus-like. Microscopic examination of tissues revealed stellate cells having processes with mucus between them. What type of dystrophy is it?
- A. Parenchymatous adipose
- B. Stromal-vascular carbohydrate
- C. Stromal-vascular proteinaceous
- D. Parenchymatous proteinaceous
- E. Stromal-vascular adipose
Hint
Mucus-like swelling with stellate cells lying in mucin signals accumulation of glycosaminoglycans in connective tissue; decide which metabolic group and which tissue compartment are involved.
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