Inflammation

For each of the following patients, select the most likely pathologic finding:

1. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a 71-year-old man with temporal arteritis can be increased as a consequence rouleaux formation of the RBCs as a result of increased:

2. Results from the action of prostaglandin on hypothalamic centers in a 63-year-old woman with a bacterial infection:

3. Region composed of proliferating capillaries, fibroblasts, and macrophages following a scraping injury to the knee of a 5-year-old girl:

4. Following a cut to the skin in a 43-year-old African-American man, the healing scar develops a disfiguring nodular appearance:

5. A 59-year-old man with diabetes mellitus develops a dark black to red appearance of the great toe and second toe of his right foot following an episode of minor trauma:

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