Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in a 15-Year-Old Male with a Retropharyngeal Phlegmon

This is a case of a 15-year-old male with an initial diagnosis of a retropharyngeal phlegmon who ultimately developed new symptoms and laboratory findings consistent with MIS-C. This case report demonstrates an atypical initial presentation for MIS-C that has not been reported in the literature.

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Autores principales: Han, Paul, Douillard, Jelena, Cheng, Jerry, Ramanathan, Anusha, Tieu, David, Degner, Timothy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7678743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33274096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6668371
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author Han, Paul
Douillard, Jelena
Cheng, Jerry
Ramanathan, Anusha
Tieu, David
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spelling pubmed-76787432020-12-02 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in a 15-Year-Old Male with a Retropharyngeal Phlegmon Han, Paul Douillard, Jelena Cheng, Jerry Ramanathan, Anusha Tieu, David Degner, Timothy Case Rep Pediatr Case Report This is a case of a 15-year-old male with an initial diagnosis of a retropharyngeal phlegmon who ultimately developed new symptoms and laboratory findings consistent with MIS-C. This case report demonstrates an atypical initial presentation for MIS-C that has not been reported in the literature. Hindawi 2020-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7678743/ /pubmed/33274096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6668371 Text en Copyright © 2020 Paul Han et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Douillard, Jelena
Cheng, Jerry
Ramanathan, Anusha
Tieu, David
Degner, Timothy
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in a 15-Year-Old Male with a Retropharyngeal Phlegmon
title Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in a 15-Year-Old Male with a Retropharyngeal Phlegmon
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title_fullStr Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in a 15-Year-Old Male with a Retropharyngeal Phlegmon
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title_short Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in a 15-Year-Old Male with a Retropharyngeal Phlegmon
title_sort multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in a 15-year-old male with a retropharyngeal phlegmon
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7678743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33274096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6668371
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