Liver abscessation and multiple septic pulmonary emboli associated with Lemierre’s syndrome: a case report

BACKGROUND: In Lemierre’s syndrome, patients first exhibit pharyngitis and peritonsillar abscessation, followed by the development of anaerobic bacterial (usually Fusobacterium necrophorum) septicemia and metastatic infections throughout the body. However, these infections rarely affect the liver. W...

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Autores principales: Takano, Yuichi, Fukuda, Kenichiro, Takayasu, Hiromi, Shinmura, Kazuki, Koizumi, Go, Sasai, Masahiro, Nagayama, Yoshikuni, Kawamo, Michiari, Yasuda, Tomohiro, Watanabe, Kazumasa, Sasaki, Jun, Hayashi, Munetaka, Yamamura, Eiichi, Maruoka, Naotaka, Nagahama, Masatsugu, Takahashi, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1028-9

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