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Lemierre’s syndrome: a possible cause of neck pain

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Supplementary file1 Doppler ultrasound of the right neck (probe sliding down from upper to lower neck) showed a longitudinal occlusive thrombus within the lumen of the right internal jugular vein (MP4 1138 kb)

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Liu, YC., Lee, WJ. Lemierre’s syndrome: a possible cause of neck pain. Intern Emerg Med 14, 1339–1340 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-019-02194-1

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