KROK 1 2009 – Question 122 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 50-year-old man revealed the following changes: his right lung was moderately compact in all parts, the dissected tissue was found to be airless, fine-grained, dryish. Visceral pleura had greyish-brown layers of fibrin. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- A. Interstitial pneumonia
- B. Pneumofibrosis
- C. Tuberculosis
- D. Croupous pneumonia
- E. Bronchopneumonia
Hint
Consider what kind of exudate leaves an airless, dry, granular cut surface with a fibrin coat on the pleura, and how widely it spreads through the lung.
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