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Case Report

Descending necrotizing mediastinitis in a healthy young adult

Nobuaki Ochi1 Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, [email protected]Correspondence[email protected]
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Tokio Wakabayashi2 Department of Otolaryngology, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Atsushi Urakami3 Department of General Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Tomoki Yamatsuji3 Department of General Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Naoto Ikemoto4 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Yasunari Nagasaki1 Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, [email protected]
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Nozomu Nakagawa1 Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, [email protected]
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Yoshihiro Honda1 Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, [email protected]
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Hidekazu Nakanishi1 Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, [email protected]
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Hiromichi Yamane1 Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, [email protected]
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Yasumasa Monobe5 Department of Pathology, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Takeshi Akisada2 Department of Otolaryngology, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Hiroshi Katayama4 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Yoshio Naomoto3 Department of General Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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Nagio Takigawa1 Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, [email protected]
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Pages 2013-2017 | Published online: 17 Oct 2018

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