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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2017

A 35-year-old patient has been suffering from an illness for 3 days. 5 days ago he returned from a trip to Africa. The onset of disease was accompanied by fever up to 40°C, chills, acute headache, myalgia. In the axillary region the lymph node enlarged up to 3x6 cm can be palpated. The lymph node is dense, intensely painful, slightly mobile, without clear margins; the skin over the node is hyperenic and tight. Tachycardia is present. Make the preliminary diagnosis:

Answer options

  1. Tularemia
  2. Plague
  3. Anthrax
  4. Sepsis
  5. Lymphadenitis
Correct answer

Plague

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