Necrosis - Pathology Boards

Question 1

necrosis

Answer 1

localized death of cells through injury or disease

Question 2

coagulative necrosis

Answer 2

heart attack allows the walls of the heart to stay strong to heal the necrotic tissue

Question 3

Liquefactive necrosis

Answer 3

CNS, completely digests the cells, transforming them into a liquid viscous mass

Question 4

Cassesous necrosis

Answer 4

TB & Syphilis, granulomatous reactions, looks like cheese or curds.

Question 5

Gummatous Necrosis

Answer 5

ONLY with Syphilis

Question 6

Zenker’s Necrosis

Answer 6

severe glassy or waxy necrosis of skeletal muscle in acute INFECTIOUS disease (typhoid fever)

Question 7

Fat Necrosis

Answer 7

formation of small quantities of calcium soaps when fat is hydrolyzed into glycerol and fatty acids (PANCREAS)

Question 8

Fibroid necrosis

Answer 8

occurs in the walls of the blood vessels when endothelial and smooth muscle cells are injured and dying (ASCHOFF’S NODES in heart muscle)

Question 9

Gangrene

Answer 9

coagulative necrosis

Noxious products of anaerobic bacterial metabolism

Question 10

Dry gangrene

Answer 10

coagulation is sustained

Question 11

wet gangrene

Answer 11

phagocytic cells break down the necrotic debris and produce some liquefaction (polyarteritis nodosa)