A SEVERE SORE THROAT IN A MIDDLE-AGED MAN: CALCIFIC TENDONITIS OF THE LONGUS COLLI TENDON

作者：Kanzaria Hemal; Stein John C^*

来源：Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2011, 41(2): 151-153.

DOI：10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.01.016

• pharyngitis
• calcific tendonitis
• odynophagia

Background: Neck pain is a common presentation to the Emergency Department (ED), requiring appropriate evaluation to exclude serious pathology. Objectives: To review an atypical clinical presentation of neck pain and to distinguish this case and its associated radiographic features from more common clinical entities. Case Report: We present an ED case of calcific tendonitis of the longus coli muscle. Summary: Acute calcific retropharyngeal tendinitis is a rare, benign etiology of non-traumatic neck pain that is poorly recognized and often mistaken for other conditions secondary to infection or trauma. The importance of this disorder, as well as a review of the literature on the subject, is presented.

• 出版日期2011-8