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Exam questionKROK 2Dentistry · 2021

A 26-year-old man came to a dentist complaining of facial asymmetry that developed because of a painful swelling in the left parotid area that appeared 3 days ago. His body temperature is 37.2°C. Two weeks ago he had a case of acute respiratory disease. Objectively, in the left parotid area there is a dense round infiltration up to 2 cm in size that is slightly mobile and moderately painful. The excretory duct of the parotid gland produces clear transparent saliva. Make the provisional diagnosis:

Answer options

  1. Exacerbation of chronic parotitis
  2. Acute purulent parotitis
  3. Mikulicz disease
  4. Herzenberg parotitis
  5. Pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland
Correct answer

Herzenberg parotitis

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