KROK 1 2007 – Question 7 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a patient who suffered from croupous pneumonia and died from pneumococcal sepsis revealed 900 ml of turbid greenish-yellow liquid in the right pleural cavity. Pleural leaves are dull, plethoric. Name the clinicopathological form of inflammation in the pleural cavity:
- A. Empyema
- B. Fibrinous inflammation
- C. Acute abscess
- D. Phlegmon
- E. Chronic abscess
Hint
Consider what the turbid greenish-yellow fluid is, and what purulent inflammation is called when pus collects in a pre-existing body cavity.
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