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Diphtheria

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Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2

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Diphtheria is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is clinically characterized by mucosal congestion and swelling in the pharynx, larynx, and nose with a grayish pseudomembrane. The bacterial exotoxins can cause systemic poisoning symptoms and even can cause toxic myocarditis and peripheral nerve paralysis in some serious cases.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Taiping People’s Hospital, Daowai District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Yinglin Guo

  2. CT Department, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    Xue Yin & Bailu Liu

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  1. Diagnostic Radiology Department, Beijing You An Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

    Hongjun Li

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Guo, Y., Yin, X., Liu, B. (2015). Diphtheria. In: Li, H. (eds) Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9876-1_7

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