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Ugeskrift for laeger · May 2012
Case Reports[Lemierre's syndrome as differential diagnosis of lung cancer].
- Jacob Reinholdt Jensen and Ulla Møller Weinreich.
- Lungemedicinsk Afdeling, Medicinerhuset, Mølleparkvej 4, Postboks 561, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark. jacrein@gmail.com
- Ugeskr. Laeg. 2012 May 28;174(22):1533-4.
AbstractLemierre's syndrome is a disseminated infection which is usually caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum. An oropharyngeal infection progresses to a septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein and later metastatic infections throughout the body occur. We present a clinical case in which a patient, initially presenting with symptoms characteristic of pulmonary cancer, turned out to have a rare variant of Lemierre's syndrome caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum.
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