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 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Clinical Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470211824054459 |
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