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* Infants and children
* Anemia and lymphopenia
* May have sore throat, spiking fever, neck stiffness, odynophagia, and neck swelling
* Eosinophilia and neutrophiliae
* Retropharyngeal bulge, stridor, drooling, nuchal rigidity, torticollis and cervical adenopathy
* Positive warm-agglutinin  antibodies
 
* Elevated LDH and creatinine concentration
 
* Elevated WBC count
* Elevated CRP
 
 
* Widening of the retropharyngeal soft tissue on X-ray
* Gas-fluid level on X-ray
* Hypodense lesion surrounded by a peripheral ring of enhancementoft-tissue on CT
* Swelling and mass effect on CT
 
 
* Polymicrobal infection

Latest revision as of 20:51, 4 November 2015

  • Anemia and lymphopenia
  • Eosinophilia and neutrophiliae
  • Positive warm-agglutinin antibodies
  • Elevated LDH and creatinine concentration