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* Infants and children
* Childhood
* May have sore throat, spiking fever, neck stiffness, odynophagia, and neck swelling  
* Painless, rounded, fluctuant, anterior  midline neck swelling
* Retropharyngeal bulge, stridor, drooling, nuchal rigidity, torticollis and cervical adenopathy
* Elevates on tongue protrusion
 
 
* 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

Revision as of 23:21, 3 November 2015

  • Childhood
  • Painless, rounded, fluctuant, anterior midline neck swelling
  • Elevates on tongue protrusion
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