Lemierre syndrome

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1021-1023

  Barker, Jonathan ^b   Winer Muram, Helen T ^a   Grey, Susan W ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN V POTASSIUM; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL RECORD; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; PHARYNGITIS; SYNDROME; THROMBOSIS; TONSIL;

EID: 0029993856     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199610000-00021     Document Type: Article

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