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Table 3 Site of metastatic spread and progression to surgery

From: Lemierre’s disease: a case with bilateral iliopsoas abscesses and a literature review

 

Pulmonary

Soft tissue

Articular

Solid organ/bone

Number of cases reported

N = 55

N = 10

N = 6

N = 22

 

2 Mediastinal

2 Hip

10 CNS

1 Masseter

1 TMJ

3Endocardial

1 Parotid

1 C1/C2

3 Liver

1 Shoulder

1 Knee

2 Orbital

1Ear

1 Shoulder

2 Solid Bone

1 Neck

 

1 Kidney

1 Subphrenic

1 Pericardial

1 Leg

Progression to surgery

9

2

1

4

Mortality

2

0

0

2