Lemierre's Syndrome Following Extraction of Wisdom Teeth

Lemierre’s syndrome is a rare but potentially fatal disease caused by oropharyngeal infections. It is characterized by thrombosis of the internal jugular vein leading to the systemic circulation of septic emboli. The common pathogen identified is Fusobacterium necrophorum. Our case involved thrombos...

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Autores principales: Keshary, Aarati, Hagan, Margaret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33224657
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11061
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description Lemierre’s syndrome is a rare but potentially fatal disease caused by oropharyngeal infections. It is characterized by thrombosis of the internal jugular vein leading to the systemic circulation of septic emboli. The common pathogen identified is Fusobacterium necrophorum. Our case involved thrombosis of the superficial internal jugular vein that developed after wisdom teeth extraction, a rarely reported complication.
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spelling pubmed-76764412020-11-19 Lemierre's Syndrome Following Extraction of Wisdom Teeth Keshary, Aarati Hagan, Margaret Cureus Emergency Medicine Lemierre’s syndrome is a rare but potentially fatal disease caused by oropharyngeal infections. It is characterized by thrombosis of the internal jugular vein leading to the systemic circulation of septic emboli. The common pathogen identified is Fusobacterium necrophorum. Our case involved thrombosis of the superficial internal jugular vein that developed after wisdom teeth extraction, a rarely reported complication. Cureus 2020-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7676441/ /pubmed/33224657 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11061 Text en Copyright © 2020, Keshary et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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title Lemierre's Syndrome Following Extraction of Wisdom Teeth
title_full Lemierre's Syndrome Following Extraction of Wisdom Teeth
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title_full_unstemmed Lemierre's Syndrome Following Extraction of Wisdom Teeth
title_short Lemierre's Syndrome Following Extraction of Wisdom Teeth
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33224657
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