KROK 1 Stomatology 2013 – Question 186 · KROK (Dentistry)
Following the tooth extraction for acute pulpitis complicated by purulent periodontitis a patient developed osteomyelitis of mandible. 10 days later the patient died with symptoms of severe intoxication. Autopsy revealed a 2x2 cm large abscess of the right frontal lobe of brain, bilateral abscessed pneumonia, myeloid hyperplasia of spleen. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- A. Septicemia
- B. Chroniosepsis
- C. Secondary septic endocarditis
- D. Pyosepticemia
- E. -
Hint
Look at the abscesses found in distant organs and ask which form of sepsis is defined by such metastatic purulent foci.
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