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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry ยท 2008

A patient was admitted to the oral surgery department with a diagnosis "odontogenous phlegmon of mouth floor". Objectively: general condition of the patient is grave, abed position is forced, the patient is sitting with lowered head. He complains about pain behind his breastbone that is getting worse during backward flexion of head; cough, dyspnea. What complication has developed?

Answer options

  1. Phlegmon of retropharyngeal space
  2. Mediastinitis
  3. Phlegmon of tongue root
  4. Phlegmon of peripharyngeal space
  5. Cervical phlegmon
Correct answer

Mediastinitis

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