Exam questionKROK 2Medicine ยท 2011
A 30-year-old patient complains of paroxysmal abdominal pain, frequent liquid stools up to 10 times a day. Throughout the first 3 days he had a fever, since the 2nd day of disease there were scant liquid stools mixed with mucus. On palpation: tenderness of all colon segments. Sigmoid colon was found spastic. What is your provisional diagnosis?
Answer options
- Acute dysentery
- Salmonellosis
- Cholera
- Intestinal amebiasis
- Balantidiasis
Correct answer
Acute dysentery
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