ABDOMINAL
GENERALISED LYMPHADENOPATHY
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An autopsy of the 69-year-old man with a long history of chronic bronchitis revealed increased pulmonary volume and hyperinflation, pale grey color, soft texture lungs that kept their form when removed from the body and put at autopsy table. Histological investigation showed markedly dilated proximal acini, thinned and somewhere ruptured interalveolar septas. For what disease of lungs such morphological picture is characteristic?
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Emphysema of lungs
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Chronic intestinal pneumonia
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Atelectasis of lungs
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Bronchiectatic disease
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Chronic bronchitis is inflammation (swelling) and irritation of the bronchial tubes. These tubes are the airways that carry air to and from the air sacs in your lungs. The irritation of the tubes causes mucus to build up.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emphysema is a lung disease that damages the alveoli in your lungs.
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