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A 55-year-old patient complains of general weakness, spasmodic neuralgic pain in the right side of face, rash in the mouth and on the skin. Objectively: lip and chin skin is markedly hyperemic, there are numerous vesicles with clear exudate on the right. The right cheek mucosa is hyperemic, there is a string of erosions covered with fibrinous pellicle. What is the provisional diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Aphthous fever
  2. Acute herpetic stomatitis
  3. Allergic stomatitis
  4. Herpes zoster
  5. Pemphigus vulgaris
Correct answer

Herpes zoster

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