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| Lemierre’s syndrome: A forgotten entity with a very rare presentation | ||||||
| Sailesh Kumar Bansiwal1, Prabal Rajvanshi2, Harshita Sharma1, Rajesh Manocha2 | ||||||
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1Postgraduate student, Department of Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India 2Professor, Department of Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India | ||||||
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| Bansiwal SK, Rajvanshi P, Sharma H, Manocha R. Lemierre’s syndrome: A forgotten entity with a very rare presentation. Int J Case Rep Images 2017;8(10):663–667. |
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ABSTRACT
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Lemierre’s syndrome is a potentially lethal condition, which originates as a complication of an oropharyngeal infection which causes suppuration of lateral pharyngeal space, bacteremia, and thrombophlebitis of internal jugular vein (IJV) leading to distant septic emboli. This is a forgotten disease in modern era of antibiotic therapy though it has been reported with increasing frequency in 21st century. We present a case of 34-year-old female presented with fever, headache, neck pain, odynophagia, and hemoptysis, found to have thrombosis of IJV and internal carotid artery (ICA) on imaging which responded to antibiotics and anticoagulant therapy. A high index of suspicion is necessary for diagnosis and early treatment is life saving. Keywords: Forgotten disease, ICA thrombosis, Lemierre’s syndrome, Septic thrombophlebitis of internal jugular vein |
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Author Contributions
Sailesh Kumar Bansiwal – Substantial contributions to conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published Prabal Rajvanshi – Substantial contributions to conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published Harshita Sharma – Substantial contributions to conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published Rajesh Manocha – Analysis and interpretation of data, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published |
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The corresponding author is the guarantor of submission. |
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Conflict of interest
Authors declare no conflict of interest. |
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Copyright
© 2017 Sailesh Kumar Bansiwal et al. This article is distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author(s) and original publisher are properly credited. Please see the copyright policy on the journal website for more information. |
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