143 MCQs in Pathology

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A 75 year old woman complains of increasing constipation and has noted bright red blood in her stools recently. She notes that the caliber of her stools has decreased. A hematology consult states she has iron deficiency anemia. You should:


  1. provide iron supplements
  2. have the patient eat more red meat and spinach
  3. work the patient up for colonic carcinoma, which will probably be found on the left side
  4. perform a total colectomy for ulcerative colitis
  5. order a barium enema to rule out a colonic carcinoma, probably on the right side
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