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CASE REPORT

Unilateral Empyema as a Complication of Infectious Mononucleosis: a Pathogenic Variant of Lemierre’s Syndrome

Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Received 16 August 2005/ Returned for modification 13 October 2005/ Accepted 6 December 2005

We present a case of a healthy 19-year-old female who developed infectious mononucleosis complicated by unilateral empyema.

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