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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry · 2020

A 22-year-old man came to a dentist with complaints of increased salivation and a sharp pain in the oral cavity during eating and talking. He notes the acute onset of the disease that occurred after an overexposure to cold, high body temperature (39,5°C), general weakness, and headache. He has a history of chronic tonsillitis and is allergic to certain medicines. On examination his skin is pale. On the dorsal surface of his hands there are bluish-pink rashes with a hemorrhagic crust in the center. Vermilion border of the lips is swollen and covered in hemorrhagic crusts. Regional lymph nodes are enlarged, painful, and mobile. Make the provisional diagnosis:

Answer options

  1. Acute herpetic stomatitis
  2. Drug-induced stomatitis
  3. Stevens-Johnson syndrome
  4. Erythema multiforme exudativum
  5. Acantholytic pemphigus
Correct answer

Erythema multiforme exudativum

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