tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Lemierre’s syndrome resulting from streptococcal induced otitis media and mastoiditis: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Lemierre’s syndrome resulting from streptococcal induced otitis media and mastoiditis: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Case report Lemierre s syndrome resulting from streptococcal induced otitis media and mastoiditis a case report Che M Harris Micean Johnikin Hope Rhodes Theresa Fuller Sohail R Rana Hasan Nabhani Dulara Hussain Mohan Kurukumbi Annapurni Jayam-Trouth Jhansi Gajjala Faria Farhat and Vinod Mody Address Howard University Hospital 2041 Georgia Avenue NW Washington DC 20060 USA Email CMH - che_harris_md@ MJ - miceanjj@ HR - rhodeshope@ TF - theresa_fuller@ SRR - srana@ HN - hnabhani@ DH - dularah@ MK - mohan311@ AJT - ajayam-trouth@ JG - jhansig@ FF - ffarhat@ VM - vmody@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 3 April 2009 Received 28 October 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 6658 doi 1752-1947-3-6658 Accepted 22 January 2009 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 3 4 6658 2009 Harris et al licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Lemierre s syndrome is an extremely rare and almost universally fatal disease characterized as thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular venous system with subsequent metastatic infection. Fusobacterium necrophorum is the most common organism implicated in causation of Lemierre s syndrome. Group A Streptococcus has mainly been observed as a polymicrobial organism in the syndrome. We report a rare finding of a rare disease where Group A Streptococcus was the sole organism triggering Lemierre s syndrome. To our knowledge this is only the third recorded patient with such an occurrence. Case presentation We describe a 9-year-old African American boy who presented