KROK 1 Stomatology 2013 – Question 3 · KROK (Dentistry)
A hospital in Donetsk region admitted the patients - members of the same family - with eyelid and face edemata, fever, eosinophilia, headache, muscle pain. The disease developed on the 7-10 day after eating pork sausage sent by the patients’ relatives from Khmelnitsky region. What is your provisional diagnosis?
- A. Teniasis
- B. Echinococcosis
- C. Cysticercosis
- D. Trichinosis
- E. Taeniarhynchosis
Hint
Relate the 1–2 week interval after eating pork, facial oedema, myalgia and eosinophilia to the tissue invaded by the parasite's larvae.
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