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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1987
The evaluation of the patient with a "sore throat" is deceptively complex. The clinician must first assess the potential for airway compromise. Specific risk factors, reviewed in this article, should be considered, including the presence of a pharyngeal membrane, immunocompromise, potential gonococcal exposure, and prior rheumatic fever.
J R, Hedges, R A, Lowe
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The evaluation of the patient with a "sore throat" is deceptively complex. The clinician must first assess the potential for airway compromise. Specific risk factors, reviewed in this article, should be considered, including the presence of a pharyngeal membrane, immunocompromise, potential gonococcal exposure, and prior rheumatic fever.
J R, Hedges, R A, Lowe
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2001
The primary care physician needs to identify those patients with acute pharyngitis who require specific antimicrobial therapy and to avoid unnecessary and potentially deleterious treatment in the large majority of patients who have a benign, self-limited infection that is usually viral.
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The primary care physician needs to identify those patients with acute pharyngitis who require specific antimicrobial therapy and to avoid unnecessary and potentially deleterious treatment in the large majority of patients who have a benign, self-limited infection that is usually viral.
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Acute tonsillitis and acute pharyngitis
Galenika Medical Journal, 2022Acute tonsillitis and pharyngitis are common diseases in clinical practice. Uncritical use of antibiotics has led to an increasing problem of antibiotic resistance. On the other hand, it is of great importance to correctly diagnose and timely treat bacterial tonsillopharyngitis in order to prevent complications.
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Acute Pharyngitis: Etiology and Diagnosis
Pediatrics, 1996Acute pharyngitis may be caused by a wide variety of microbial agents (Table 1). The relative importance of each of these agents varies greatly depending on a number of epidemiologic factors, including age of the patient, season of the year, and geographic locale.
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Lemierre syndrome: a complication of acute pharyngitis
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 1998Lemierre syndrome, otherwise known as postanginal sepsis or necrobacillosis, is an illness that originates as an acute pharyngitis or tonsillitis which progresses to sepsis, usually fusobacterial, due to suppurative thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. Septic thromboemboli then seed various organs, resulting in multiple organ system pathology,
A, Williams +4 more
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Acute presentation of a fibroepithelial pharyngeal polyp
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2004We report the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian man who presented with choking and airway compromise due to a large pharyngeal polyp. It was resected as an emergency procedure and subjected to macroscopic and microscopic examination. The fibroepithelial polyp arose from the right pharyngeal wall and consisted of adipose tissue covered by squamous ...
W, Mangar, D, Jiang, R V, Lloyd
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Acute Pharyngitis: An Unusual Presentation of Acute Endemic Typhus
Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2005Acute pharyngitis is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical advice, leading to more than 15 million office visits per year in the United States. The etiologic agents include many microorganisms: viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Noninfectious causes such as allergy, trauma, neoplasia, and others have also been suggested.
Roger V, Moukarbel +3 more
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[Diagnosis of acute pharyngitis].
La Revue du praticien, 1992The diagnosis of acute pharyngitis relies on a good analysis of its signs and symptoms, one of the objectives of this thorough clinical study being to differentiate between pharyngitis as a symptom and as a disease. Establishing correlations between the clinical diagnosis of acute pharyngitis and a tentative microbiological diagnosis facilitates the ...
M, Micoud, J P, Brion
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Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego, 2006
The signs and symptoms of acute pharyngitis was described, and principles of diagnostic and therapeutic approach was discussed, concentrating on differentiation between the various forms of virus and bacterial pharyngitis. The economical and clinical importance of rational diagnosis of acute pharyngitis was pointed out, in aspect of antibiotic ...
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The signs and symptoms of acute pharyngitis was described, and principles of diagnostic and therapeutic approach was discussed, concentrating on differentiation between the various forms of virus and bacterial pharyngitis. The economical and clinical importance of rational diagnosis of acute pharyngitis was pointed out, in aspect of antibiotic ...
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[Treatment of acute pharyngitis].
La Revue du praticien, 1992The treatment of acute pharyngitis is mainly aimed at the prevention of complications, particularly rheumatic fever. To reach this objective group A beta-haemolytic streptococci must be eradicated. To be effective, antibiotics must penetrate into the pharyngeal and tonsillar tissues and be active against streptococci.
P, Chavanet, H, Portier
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