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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2009

A 38-year-old man was delivered to the hospital in unconscious state. The symptoms of illness turned up a day before: headache, nausea, vomiting, to-38,5°C, dizziness, delusion. For the last 4 days he had been complaining of pain and hearing loss in the left ear. Objectively: sopor, rigidity of occipital muscles, bilateral Kernig's symptom, general hyperesthesia, purulent discharges from the left ear. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Subarachnoidal haemorrhage
  2. Primary purulent meningitis
  3. Secondary purulent meningitis
  4. Parenchymatous subarachnoidal haemorrhage
  5. Tuberculous meningitis
Correct answer

Secondary purulent meningitis

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