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
- Subarachnoidal haemorrhage
- Primary purulent meningitis
- Secondary purulent meningitis
- Parenchymatous subarachnoidal haemorrhage
- Tuberculous meningitis
Correct answer
Secondary purulent meningitis
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