Pathology Lab Inflammation PDF

Question 1

What is pitting edema?

Answer 1

when you press into the skin, like on the lower extremity & see it leave a depression in the soft tissue

Question 2

What are effusions? What are the 2 types?

Answer 2

collection of fluid in a body cavity

• *transudate: fluid that leaves b.v. w/o protein & bunches of cells
• *exudate: fluid that leaves the b.v. w/ protein & goodies

Question 3

What does a serous effusion look like?

Answer 3

a transudate w/ mainly fluid & not many or any cells

Question 4

What does a serosanguinous effusion look like?

Answer 4

effusion w/ RBCs

hemorrhage likely occurred

Question 5

What does a fibrinous effusion look like?

Answer 5

this includes fibrin strands

• *could be seen in fibrinous pericarditis
• *looks like stringy pink things.

Question 6

What is a purulent effusion? What else is this called?

Answer 6

consists of many neutrophils

also called empyema when it is in the pleural space

Question 7

What would a chylous peritoneal effusion look like?

Answer 7

milky white fluid in the peritoneal cavity

due to blocking of lymphatic drainage

Question 8

What is the most common abscess?

Answer 8

the pimple on the face of a teenager

Question 9

T/F A result of inflammation is ulceration.

Answer 9

Sometimes, yes.

Question 10

What are the cells most often seen in chronic inflammation?

Answer 10

lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages

Question 11

Viruses more often lead to what type of inflammation?

Answer 11

chronic inflammation

Question 12

What are some examples of mixed acute & chronic inflammation?

Answer 12

acute & chronic cholecystitis

acute & chronic cervitis

Question 13

When you are healing from inflammation…a lot of times you cause growth of more capillaries & fibroblasts. What type of tissue will this help form?

Answer 13

granulation tissue!

Question 14

What types of inflammatory cells does granulation tissue typically have?

Answer 14

mainly mononuclear cells

some neutrophils may be present

Question 15

What are adhesions?

Answer 15

thin bands of collagenous CT connecting tissues, could cause abnormal positioning of organs
**forms b/c of resolution of inflammation

Question 16

A chest radiograph of a pt w/ TB is often called: _______. Why?

Answer 16

reticulonodular

• *b/c of localized areas of granulomas
• *they are sorta circular & might have a giant cell w/ the bad guy eaten up.

Question 17

Granulomatous inflammation usu includes which cell types?

Answer 17

epitheloid macrophages
giant cells
lymphocytes
plasma cells
fibroblasts
perhaps some neutrophils

Question 18

Describe the structure of giant cells.

Answer 18

nuclei lined up around the periphery of the cell

pink epitheloid macrophages fill most of the granuloma

Question 19

Describe the structure of epitheloid macrophages in the granuloma.

Answer 19

they have lots of pink cytoplasm

their nuclei are long & stringy

Question 20

T/F While granulomatous inflammation is usu associated w/ caseous necrosis & TB…it can also be seen when foreign materials are introduced into the body.

Answer 20

TRUE