KROK 1 2007 – Question 31 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
Having helped to eliminate consequences of a failure at a nuclear power plant, a worker got an irradiation dose of 500 roentgen. He complains of headache, nausea, dizziness. What changes in leukocytes quantity can be expected 10 hours after irradiation?
- A. Neutrophilic leukocytosis
- B. Lymphocytosis
- C. Leukopenia
- D. Leukemia
- E. Agranulocytosis
Hint
Think about what happens to white cells in the first hours, before the damaged marrow's failure to renew them becomes visible, and which reaction mobilises reserves.
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