Síndrome de Lemierre con distress respiratorio

• Main Authors: Miguel Silva (Author), Eduarda Pena (Author), Margarida Oliveira (Author), Daniela Carvalho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Galega de Medicina Interna, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Lemierre's syndrome is a clinical triad of acute oropharyngeal infection, secondary local invasion and vein thrombosis often involving the internal jugular vein, along with evidence of systemic septic embolism. Usually affecting otherwise healthy adolescents and young adults, anaerobic Fusobact...