UNLABELLED Lateropharyngeal and retropharyngeal abscesses are potentially life threatening infections in children AIM To review the etiologic, clinical, and imaging signs of lateropharyngeal and retropharyngeal abscesses in children as well as treatment-outcomes and complications using a surgical trans-oral approach. METHOD Retrospective analysis of 11 children, hospitalized in the last 5 y...

INTRODUCTION Melioidosis is a life-threatening disease caused by B. pseudomallei. It is endemic in Southeast Asia with a few reports from the Western world. It is transmitted via inhalation, ingestion or direct contact with an open wound. Clinically it may present with local or systemic symptoms. Mortality rate is very high in systemic disease; but local infection is usually mild, which causes ...

PTA is a collection of pus located between the tonsillar capsule and the pharyngeal constrictor muscle. It is considered a complication of acute tonsillitis and is the most prevalent deep neck infection (approximately 2000 cases annually in Denmark) and cause of acute admission to Danish ENT departments. Teenagers and young adults are most commonly affected and males may predominate over female...

OBJECTIVE To clarify presentations, organisms, and locations of deep neck abscesses in children. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING Tertiary children's hospital. The study population comprised 169 patients younger than 19 years who were surgically treated for deep neck abscesses between 1989 and 1999. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Resolution of abscess. RESULTS Neck mass (91%), fever (86%), ce...

INTRODUCTION Foreign body ingestion is a frequent emergency occurrence. Serious complications, although rare, include pharyngooesophageal perforation, aorto-oesophageal fistula and deep neck infection. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective review was performed of all cases of foreign body ingestion requiring hospitalization between 1989 and 2011, in a tertiary Hospital. Cases complicated by de...

PERITONSILLAR abscess develops as a complication of tonsillitis, when infection spreads to the loose peritonsillar tissues. Insufficiently treated the abscess may perforate into the parapharyngeal space and spread along the vessels of the neck to the mediastinum or upwards under the base of the skull. Thrombophlebitis in the jugular vein, oedema of the larynx, sepsis and metastatic abscesses ma...

BACKGROUND Head and Neck Parapharyngeal space tumors are rare. Pleomorphic Adenomas are the most common Parapharyngeal space tumors. The purpose of this study was to define preoperative criteria for enabling full extirpation of parapharyngeal space pleomorphic adenomas via the transcervical approach while minimizing functional and cosmetic morbidity. METHODS The surgical records and medical c...

BACKGROUND Conventional approaches for removing parapharyngeal space tumors require a cervical skin incision and resection of soft tissues between the skin and parapharyngeal space. The surgical visual field for this conventional approach is limited. METHODS To decrease invasiveness during removal of benign parapharyngeal space tumors and to enhance the visual field, we devised a new approach...