PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled Pharyngitis of infectious mononucleosis: computed tomography findings (Radiat Med. 2008 May;26(4):248-51). Authors are Kutuya N Kurosaki Y Suzuki K et al., from the Department of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Two women presented with sore throat and fever. Their symptoms were not alleviated by antibiotics. Cervical computed tomography (CT) with contrast enhancement demonstrated enlargement of predominant posterior cervical lymph nodes and streaky heterogeneous tonsils with interspersed low attenuation. They were diagnosed as having infectious mononucleosis by their laboratory data. Thus, when radiologists encounter these CT findings of pharyngitis that is not alleviated by antibiotic therapy, infectious mononucleosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.
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