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As a result of careless handling of an iron, a 34-year-old female patient has got acute pain, redness, swelling of her right index finger. A few minutes later, there appeared a blister filled with a transparent liquid of straw-yellow color. The described changes are a manifestation of the following pathological process:

Answer options

  1. Traumatic edema
  2. Proliferative inflammation
  3. Vacuolar degeneration
  4. Exudative inflammation
  5. Alternative inflammation
Correct answer

Exudative inflammation

Explanation

First of all, with the signs, it's an inflammation. (so "Traumatic edema" and "Vacuolar degeneration" are out). Exudate is any fluid produced during inflammation and here, a fluid was produced.

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