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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2013

A 7-year-old female child has developed an acute condition. She complains of a headache, two onsets of vomiting. Objectively: deferred reactions, body temperature - 39,3°C, pronounced hyperesthesia, nuchal rigidity, positive superior and inferior Brudzinski's signs, symmetric Kernig's sign. What is the provisional diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Toxic encephalopathy
  2. Encephalitis
  3. Craniocerebral trauma
  4. Food toxicoinfection
  5. Meningitis
Correct answer

Meningitis

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