Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen |
2020
Abstract
COVID-19 disease presenting as acute tonsilitis in a 16-year-old boy The COVID-19 disease presents in patients with a wide range of climcal 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 čase 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 naso- pharyngeal swab using the RT-PCR method, following a targeted epidemiological history.