Lemierre syndrome

Lemierre syndrome is a rare, potentially lethal, oropharyngeal infectious disease occurring in immunocompetent adolescents and young adults that is mainly due to Fusobacterium necrophorum and that is characterized by septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein that leads to septic, usually pulmonary, embolism, associated with ENT (ear, nose, and throat) infection that manifests with fever, neck pain, and tonsillopharyngitis.

Also known as: Lemierre postanginal sepsis, Lemierre syndrome, postanginal sepsis secondary to orophyngeal infection, septic phlebitis of the internal jugular vein, Lemierre's syndrome, necrobacillosis, oropharyngeal infection leading to secondary septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein

5 clinical trials for this condition and its sub-types, 0 tagged with Lemierre syndrome itself.