Acute Longus Colli Calcific Tendinitis: A Rare Cause of Neck Pain
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A rare case of neck pain: acute longus colli calcific tendinitis in a possibly immunocompromised individual.
We present a rare case of severe neck pain in a 45-year-old man with severe hidradenitis suppurativa who was participating in a study involving adalimumab. The neck pain was associated with acute longus colli calcific tendinitis, which is a noninfectious inflammatory response in the longus colli tendons secondary to deposition of calcium hydroxyapatite crystal. The diagnosis was made by compute...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2284-2594
DOI: 10.12890/2019_001126