Abstract

  As any clinician or doctor will say, the most pivotal step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is scrupulously identified, a good resolution is far more likely. On the other side, a wrong diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the doctor or clinician is. Here we present a case of diagnostic conundrum and treatment dilemma of pericoronitis or COVID-19.

Keywords: Conundrum; Dilemma; Pericoronitis; COVID-19

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Citation

Citation: Sutham S Nair and Varun Menon P. “Diagnostic Conundrum and Treatment Dilemma of Pericoronitis or COVID-19". Acta Scientific Otolaryngology 2.11 (2020): 23-25.

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Copyright: © 2020 Sutham S Nair and Varun Menon P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.