q4 - kola

[ArchivalUser]

A 25-year-old man has noted cramping abdominal pain for the past week associated with fever and low-volume diarrhea. On physical examination, there is right lower quadrant tenderness. Bowel sounds are present. His stool is positive for occult blood. A colonoscopy reveals mucosal edema and ulceration in the ascending colon, but the transverse and descending portions of the colon are not affected. Which of the following microscopic findings is most likely to be present in biopsies from his colon?

A Crypt abscesses

B Entameba histolytica organisms

C Adenocarcinoma

D Band-like mucosal fibrosis

E Non-caseating granulomas

F Necrotizing vasculitis

[ArchivalUser]

bb.. the ulcers shud be flask shaped

[ArchivalUser]

b?

[ArchivalUser]

E. Crohn...

[ArchivalUser]

probably bb

[ArchivalUser]

eeeCORRECT. This history is most typical for Crohn disease, which is a form of inflammatory bowel disease that tends to involve the bowel in a segmental pattern.