KROK 1 2007 – Question 100 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Mucous membrane of the right palatine tonsil has a painless ulcer with smooth lacquer fundus and regular cartilaginous edges. Microscopically: inflammatory infiltration that consists of lymphocytes, plasmocytes, a small number of neutrophils and epithelioid cells; endovasculitis and perivasculitis. What disease is it?
- A. Syphilis
- B. Pharyngeal diphtheria
- C. Ulcerous necrotic Vincent’s angina
- D. Actinomycosis
- E. Tuberculosis
Hint
Consider which chronic infection produces a firm, painless, clean-based ulcer at the site of entry, with a plasma-cell-rich infiltrate and inflammation of the vessel walls.
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