Two Different Life-Threatening Cases: Presenting with Torticollis

Acquired torticollis can be the result of several different pathological mechanisms. It is generally related to trauma, tumors, and inflammatory processes of the cervical muscles, nerves, and vertebral synovia. Although upper respiratory tract and neck inflammation are common causes of acute febrile...

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Autores principales: Alkan, Gülsüm, Emiroğlu, Melike, Kartal, Ayşe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5124474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27957374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7808734
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description Acquired torticollis can be the result of several different pathological mechanisms. It is generally related to trauma, tumors, and inflammatory processes of the cervical muscles, nerves, and vertebral synovia. Although upper respiratory tract and neck inflammation are common causes of acute febrile torticollis in children, diseases with as yet undefined relationships may also result in torticollis. This is the case of spinal arachnoid cyst and pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-51244742016-12-12 Two Different Life-Threatening Cases: Presenting with Torticollis Alkan, Gülsüm Emiroğlu, Melike Kartal, Ayşe Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Acquired torticollis can be the result of several different pathological mechanisms. It is generally related to trauma, tumors, and inflammatory processes of the cervical muscles, nerves, and vertebral synovia. Although upper respiratory tract and neck inflammation are common causes of acute febrile torticollis in children, diseases with as yet undefined relationships may also result in torticollis. This is the case of spinal arachnoid cyst and pneumonia. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5124474/ /pubmed/27957374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7808734 Text en Copyright © 2016 Gülsüm Alkan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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