Three patients with the diagnosis of acute calcific prevertebral tendinitis underwent CT or a combination of CT and MR imaging, which showed previously described findings of calcifications within the tendons of the longus colli muscles. In addition, however, we detected a retropharyngeal effusion in all three patients. The importance of this finding lies in the need to differentiate this effusi...

We present a case of aggressive fibromatosis of the scalene and longus colli muscles with surgically proved secondary involvement of the brachial plexus and carotid sheath in a 29-year-old woman in whom MR imaging failed to show involvement of the carotid sheath. The well-defined lesion was isointense on T1-weighted images and hyperintense on T2-weighted images relative to adjacent normal muscl...

Abstract Background Horner syndrome is caused by disruption to any part of the oculosympathetic nerve supply, and classically characterized triad ptosis, miosis, facial anhidrosis. Two cases secondary longus colli edema have previously been reported in literature; however, this first case bilateral asymmetric inflammation causing unilateral syndrome. Case presentation An 18-year-old male was fo...