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1 Retropharyngeal Abscess
Retropharyngeal Abscess. This ill-appearing 6-year-old child presented with a several-day history of fever, neck pain, sore throat, cough, and headache. Soft tissue lateral radiography of the neck showed thickened prevertebral tissues opposite C2 to C4. CT showed the airway narrowed to a width of 5 mm within the oropharynx. (Photo contributor: Mark Ralston, MD.) Source: PEDIATRIC CONDITIONS, The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 4e Citation: Knoop KJ, Stack LB, Storrow AB, Thurman R. The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 4e; 2016 Available at: Accessed: October 29, 2017 Copyright © 2017 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved

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Copyright © 2016 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved.

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