Lemierre's syndrome as differential diagnosis of lung cancer
Reinholdt Jensen, J.; Weinreich, U.M.øl.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 174(22): 1533-1534
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 1603-6824 PMID: 22668649 Document Number: 661271
Lemierre's syndrome is a disseminated infection which is usually caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum. An oropharyngeal infection progresses to a septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein and later metastatic infections throughout the body occur. We present a clinical case in which a patient, initially presenting with symptoms characteristic of pulmonary cancer, turned out to have a rare variant of Lemierre's syndrome caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum.