It all started with a sore throat: Polymicrobial septicaemia, cavitating lung lesions and severe thrombocytopenia

We report a case of a syndrome first described by French bacteriologist André Lemierre nearly 100 years ago. A young woman presented with fever, chest pain and arthralgia. Admission investigations revealed thrombocytopenia, cavitating pneumonia and an internal jugular vein thrombus. Blood cultures w...

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Main Authors: Edmund Hugh Larkin, Ana Garcia-Mingo, Roopal Patel, Andrew Badacsonyi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-11-01
Series:Clinical Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470211824054459
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