Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina

We present an unusual case of Ludwig's angina secondary to a left tonsillar phlegmon in a previously fit and well 50‐year‐old woman. This tonsillar phlegmon spread along the peritonsillar/parapharyngeal plane to cause a diffuse cellulitis and collection in the submental, sublingual, and submand...

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Autores principales: Tailor, Bhavesh V., Devakumar, Haran, Myuran, Tharsika, Ioannidis, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9468653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36172328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6325
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author Tailor, Bhavesh V.
Devakumar, Haran
Myuran, Tharsika
Ioannidis, Dimitrios
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description We present an unusual case of Ludwig's angina secondary to a left tonsillar phlegmon in a previously fit and well 50‐year‐old woman. This tonsillar phlegmon spread along the peritonsillar/parapharyngeal plane to cause a diffuse cellulitis and collection in the submental, sublingual, and submandibular spaces despite empirical intravenous antibiotic therapy.
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spelling pubmed-94686532022-09-27 Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina Tailor, Bhavesh V. Devakumar, Haran Myuran, Tharsika Ioannidis, Dimitrios Clin Case Rep Case Report We present an unusual case of Ludwig's angina secondary to a left tonsillar phlegmon in a previously fit and well 50‐year‐old woman. This tonsillar phlegmon spread along the peritonsillar/parapharyngeal plane to cause a diffuse cellulitis and collection in the submental, sublingual, and submandibular spaces despite empirical intravenous antibiotic therapy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9468653/ /pubmed/36172328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6325 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tailor, Bhavesh V.
Devakumar, Haran
Myuran, Tharsika
Ioannidis, Dimitrios
Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina
title Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina
title_full Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina
title_fullStr Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina
title_full_unstemmed Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina
title_short Parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: A rare and unusual cause of Ludwig's angina
title_sort parapharyngeal and floor‐of‐mouth abscess secondary to tonsillar phlegmon: a rare and unusual cause of ludwig's angina
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9468653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36172328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6325
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