Exam questionKROK 2Medicine ยท 2014
A 4-year-old boy had untimely vaccination. He complains of painful swallowing, headache, inertness, fever. Objectively: the child is pale, has enlarged anterior cervical lymph nodes, swollen tonsils with cyanotic hyperemia, tonsils are covered with gray-white pellicles which cannot be easily removed. When the pellicles are forcibly removed, the tonsils bleed. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Answer options
- Pseudomembranous tonsillitis
- Lacunar tonsillitis
- Follicular tonsillitis
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Oropharyngeal diphtheria
Correct answer
Oropharyngeal diphtheria
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