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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2007

Autopsy of a 56 y.o. man revealed in the right temporal part of brain a big focus of softened grey matter that was semiliquid and light grey. Arteries of cerebral tela contain multiple whitish-yellow thickenings of intima that abruptly narrow the lumen. What is your diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Brain edema
  2. Brain abscess
  3. Hemorrhage
  4. Hemorrhagic infarction
  5. Ischemic stroke
Correct answer

Ischemic stroke

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