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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2017

A 40-year-old patient has acute onset of disease caused by overexposure to cold. Temperature has increased up to 39°C. Foul-smelling sputum is expectorated during coughig. Various moist crackles can be auscultated above the 3rd segment on the right. Blood test: leukocytes - 15,0 × 109/l, stab neutrophils - 12%, ESR - 52 mm/hour. On X-ray: in the 3rd segment on the right there is a focus of shadow 3 cm in diameter, low density, with fuzzy smooth margins and a clearing in its center. What disease is most likely in the given case?

Answer options

  1. Cystic echinococcosis
  2. Pulmonary cyst
  3. Peripheral pulmonary cancer
  4. Pneumonia complicated by an abscess
  5. Infiltrative tuberculosis
Correct answer

Pneumonia complicated by an abscess

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