In:
HNO, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 71, No. 5 ( 2023-05), p. 319-322
Kurzfassung:
A 50-year-old patient with confirmed monkeypox infection presented with odynophagia and nocturnal dyspnea. Clinically, there was a lesion on the tongue without any skin lesions and fibrinous plaques on the right tonsil with asymmetry of the palatoglossal arch. Due to a suggested abscess in the CT scan, a tonsillectomy à chaud was performed. By pan-orthopox-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) the monkeypox infection was also confirmed in the tonsil tissue. Isolated oral findings may represent a monkeypox infection and should be considered as a currently important differential diagnosis, especially for patients at risks.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0017-6192
,
1433-0458
DOI:
10.1007/s00106-023-01282-1
Sprache:
Deutsch
Verlag:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publikationsdatum:
2023
ZDB Id:
1459183-2
