KROK 1 2014 – Question 49 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 10-year-old child has painful swallowing, neck edema, temperature rise up to 39.0°C, the whole body is covered with bright-red petechial rash. Back of the throat and tonsils are hyperemic, the tongue is crimson- colored. Tonsillar surface is covered with isolated grayish-colored necrosis nidi. What disease is it?
- A. Measles
- B. Influenza
- C. Diphtheria
- D. Scarlet fever
- E. Meningococcal nasopharyngitis
Hint
Combine the rash over the whole body, the colour change of the tongue and the type of change in the tonsils, and ask which childhood infection links all three.
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