• Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Jan 2012

    Case Reports

    [A man with a painful, swollen neck and fever].

    • Mark G H Busscher and Schelto Kruijff.
    • Medisch Spectrum Twente, afd. Chirurgie, Enschede, the Netherlands.
    • Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2012 Jan 1; 156 (24): A3239.

    AbstractLemierre's syndrome is a rare condition mostly secondary caused by an oropharyngeal infection with Fusobacterium necrophorum. We report a 62-year-old man with a classic case of Lemierre's syndrome, most likely caused by a diminished immunity as a result of an underlying chronic lymphatic leukemia.

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