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CLINICALPATHOLOGY-199
The COLOUR of STOOL can have diagnostic significance. ACHOLIC (PALE/CLAY-COLOURED) stools indicate which condition?
A. Upper GI haemorrhage
B. COMPLETE BILIARY OBSTRUCTION — no bilirubin/bile enters the intestine → no stercobilin produced → pale, clay-coloured, acholic stool
C. Cholera (rice-water stools)
D. Carbohydrate malabsorption
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