Lemierre Syndrome

Lemierre syndrome is caused by acute oropharyngeal infections with secondary septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein and is characterized by frequent metastatic infections. A 56-year-old man presented with severe reddish inflammatory swelling of the right cervical soft tissue. Thromboph...

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Autores principales: Bang, Yun Yi, Kim, Jung-Tae, Chang, Woon-Ha, Oh, Tae Yun, Kong, Joon-Hyuk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3270288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22324031
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2011.44.6.437
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author Bang, Yun Yi
Kim, Jung-Tae
Chang, Woon-Ha
Oh, Tae Yun
Kong, Joon-Hyuk
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description Lemierre syndrome is caused by acute oropharyngeal infections with secondary septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein and is characterized by frequent metastatic infections. A 56-year-old man presented with severe reddish inflammatory swelling of the right cervical soft tissue. Thrombophlebitis in the right internal jugular vein and multiple pulmonary embolisms were identified on neck and chest computed tomography (CT). He was treated with antibiotics and heparin for 4 weeks and then discharged without other complications.
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spelling pubmed-32702882012-02-09 Lemierre Syndrome Bang, Yun Yi Kim, Jung-Tae Chang, Woon-Ha Oh, Tae Yun Kong, Joon-Hyuk Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Lemierre syndrome is caused by acute oropharyngeal infections with secondary septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein and is characterized by frequent metastatic infections. A 56-year-old man presented with severe reddish inflammatory swelling of the right cervical soft tissue. Thrombophlebitis in the right internal jugular vein and multiple pulmonary embolisms were identified on neck and chest computed tomography (CT). He was treated with antibiotics and heparin for 4 weeks and then discharged without other complications. Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2011-12 2011-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3270288/ /pubmed/22324031 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2011.44.6.437 Text en © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2011. All right reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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