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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2006

Autopsy of a 12-year-old girl revealed: multiple cutaneous hemmorhages (mostly into the skin of buttocks, lower extremities), serous and mucous memrane hemmorhages, cerebral hemmorhages. Adrenal glands show focal necrosis and massive hemmorhages; kidneys show necrotic nephrosis, suppurative arthritis, iridocyclitis, vasculitis. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Epidemic typhus
  2. Radiation sickness
  3. Periarteritis nodosa
  4. Systemic lupus erythematosus
  5. Meningococcemia
Correct answer

Meningococcemia

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