Neurological complications in two children with Lemierre syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 779-781

  Peer Mohamed, Basheer ^a   Carr, Lucinda ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; LEPTOMENINGITIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TONSILLITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACYCLOVIR; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CEFTRIAXONE; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OROPHARYNX; SYNDROME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77955145701     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03718.x     Document Type: Article

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