Acute infectious mononucleosis presenting with dacryoadenitis and tonsillitis.

摘要

Abstarct not availableudud...Infectious mononucleosis is an acuteudfebrile illness caused by Epstein-Barrudvirus (EBV).udIt was first linked with upper eyelidudoedema and lacrimal gland inflammationudin the 1950s. Dacryadenitis, more frequentlyudunilateral, has been described inudthe last decades but has rarely been reportedudrecently. Extrapolation from theudpopulation frequency of infectious mononucleosisudyields an estimated incidence ofudEBV dacryoadenitis of one case per oneudmillion people per year (Rhem et al.ud2000). A case of bilateral acute dacryoadenitisudand tonsillitis in association withudinfectious mononucleosis is described...