Acute obstructive respiratory emergencies in children are a common cause of emergency department visits. The severity of these conditions ranges from mild, self-limited disease to life-threatening forms of rapidly progressive airway obstruction. A high index of suspicion is necessary for prompt diagnosis and treatment. This review discusses general principles of assessing and managing respirato...

A 52-year-old woman developed headache, throat foreign body sensation, neck pain, and fever of 3 days duration 3 months after choking on a Pearl Spot fish bone (FB). CSF contained 2,200 cells, neutrophils (90%) with normal sugar and protein. Brain MRI showed possible occipital cerebritis (figure). CT neck revealed a retropharyngeal foreign body, abscess and emphysema, and a pharyngeal fistula. ...

A 6-year-old boy presented with 4 months of right neck pain that, along with increasing swelling over the previous 15 days, was associated with fever, night sweats, and dysphagia. Physical examination showed diffuse right neck swelling (Figure 1A). Serological tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were negative. A lateral cervical spine X-ray revealed widening of the retropharyngeal spac...

awasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis of nknown etiology, also called an acute febrile mucocutaeous lymph node syndrome, which is first identified by Dr. omisaku Kawasaki in 1967. This disease is characterized y fever, erythematous rash, cervical lymphadenitis, strawerry tongue, nonpurulent conjunctivitis and desquamation f hands and feet. Of these symptoms, the most infrequent y...

The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm for the diagnosis and treatment of cervical phlegmons in order to increase the diagnostic accuracy, to reduce the intra and postoperative risks and complication rates and to increase the number of cases with restitutio ad integrum. This is a retrospective clinical study on 21 patients diagnosed with cervical phlegmon. The study group consists...