Card 9 / 27: In there there was an equine esophagus with a bolus of feed lodged in the lumen. If this had been dislodged and the horse had been able to go home instead of being euthanized, what might have been the long term consequence of this episode of choke?
A) after the food bolus was removed, the damaged mucosa might heal with very thickened squamous epithelium arranged in papillary forms that would mechanically block food from moving past this new obstructive lesion
B) a stricture might develop as granulation tissue matures and contracts at the site where the food bolus had been lodged
C) the wound becomes fibrotic and the horse is now more likely to experience necrotic esophageal disease
D) the horse will develop gastric reflux disease

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