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COVID-19 disease presenting as acute tonsilitis in a 16-year-old boy


Authors: R. Šín;  D. Sedláček;  M. Kubiska
Authors‘ workplace: Klinika infekčních nemocí a cestovní medicíny, Lékařská fakulta v Plzni, Univerzita Karlova, Fakultní nemocnice Plzeň
Published in: Otorinolaryngol Foniatr, 69, 2020, No. 3, pp. 139-142.
Category: Case Reports

Overview

The COVID-19 disease presents in patients with a wide range of clinical symptoms; most commonly as a fever, cough, shortness of breath, headaches or muscle and joint aches. Gastrointestinal symptomatology is also not rare. Sore throats occur only minimally. We present the case of a 16-year-old patient in whom COVID-19 presented under the image of acute tonsillitis. It was diagnosed by detecting SARS-CoV-2 from a nasopharyngeal swab using the RT-PCR method, following a targeted epidemiological history.

Keywords:

SARS-CoV-2 – COVID-19 – acute tonsillitis


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