Acute febrile torticollis in youth: clinical investigation and current management

Acute febrile torticollis in children is a rare and a special clinical picture of variable causes. It may indicate an inflammatory or an infectious pathology affecting any of the anatomical structures of the neck. Treatment is quite clearly defined, and it may be a therapeutic emergency. It is a con...

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Autores principales: Ouattassi, Naouar, Chmiel, Mohammed, Kerouiti, Zakaria El, Ridal, Mohammed, Alami, Mohammed Nouredine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4546785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26328000
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.21.163.5843
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description Acute febrile torticollis in children is a rare and a special clinical picture of variable causes. It may indicate an inflammatory or an infectious pathology affecting any of the anatomical structures of the neck. Treatment is quite clearly defined, and it may be a therapeutic emergency. It is a condition that all ENT specialists must be familiar with since they are most likely to be the first physician to whom such a child is brought
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spelling pubmed-45467852015-08-31 Acute febrile torticollis in youth: clinical investigation and current management Ouattassi, Naouar Chmiel, Mohammed Kerouiti, Zakaria El Ridal, Mohammed Alami, Mohammed Nouredine Pan Afr Med J Case Report Acute febrile torticollis in children is a rare and a special clinical picture of variable causes. It may indicate an inflammatory or an infectious pathology affecting any of the anatomical structures of the neck. Treatment is quite clearly defined, and it may be a therapeutic emergency. It is a condition that all ENT specialists must be familiar with since they are most likely to be the first physician to whom such a child is brought The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4546785/ /pubmed/26328000 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.21.163.5843 Text en © Naouar Ouattassi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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