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* Associated with variable presentations
* Infants and children
* Painful enlarged cervical lymph nodes
* May have sore throat, spiking fever, neck stiffness, odynophagia, and neck swelling
* Acute, subacute, or chronic
* Retropharyngeal bulge, stridor, drooling, nuchal rigidity, torticollis and cervical adenopathy
* Tender ,firm, cervical nodes
 
 
* Elevated WBC count
* Elevated WBC count
* Elevated ESR and CRP
* Elevated CRP
* Polymicrobal infection

Revision as of 23:10, 3 November 2015

  • Infants and children
  • May have sore throat, spiking fever, neck stiffness, odynophagia, and neck swelling
  • Retropharyngeal bulge, stridor, drooling, nuchal rigidity, torticollis and cervical adenopathy


  • Elevated WBC count
  • Elevated CRP
  • Polymicrobal infection