KROK 1 2007 – Question 4 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient ill with diabetes mellitus felt acute pain in his right foot. Objectively: foot thumb is black, foot tissues are edematous, there are foci of epidermis desquamation, stinking discharges. What clinicopathological form of necrosis is it?
- A. Infarction
- B. Dry gangrene
- C. Sequestrum
- D. Moist gangrene
- E. Bedsore
Hint
Focus on the edema, foul-smelling discharge and blackened toe in a diabetic foot: what do they tell you about tissue water content and putrefactive bacteria in the dead area?
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