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Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck

A 51‐year‐old afebrile man visited the hospital with acute severe neck pain with stiff neck, but cervical CT showed no calcification around the odontoid process. Cervical MRI revealed prevertebral hyperintense area of edema at the C1‐C5 vertebral bodies, providing the diagnosis of retropharyngeal ca...

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Autores principales: Akaishi, Tetsuya, Miura, Keiki, Iduma, Masaaki, Ishii, Tadashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33304727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.360
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author Akaishi, Tetsuya
Miura, Keiki
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Ishii, Tadashi
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description A 51‐year‐old afebrile man visited the hospital with acute severe neck pain with stiff neck, but cervical CT showed no calcification around the odontoid process. Cervical MRI revealed prevertebral hyperintense area of edema at the C1‐C5 vertebral bodies, providing the diagnosis of retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis. The patient was spared for lumbar puncture, and his symptoms swiftly disappeared only with oral NSAIDs.[Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-76892322020-12-09 Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck Akaishi, Tetsuya Miura, Keiki Iduma, Masaaki Ishii, Tadashi J Gen Fam Med Images in Clinical Medicine A 51‐year‐old afebrile man visited the hospital with acute severe neck pain with stiff neck, but cervical CT showed no calcification around the odontoid process. Cervical MRI revealed prevertebral hyperintense area of edema at the C1‐C5 vertebral bodies, providing the diagnosis of retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis. The patient was spared for lumbar puncture, and his symptoms swiftly disappeared only with oral NSAIDs.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7689232/ /pubmed/33304727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.360 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Association This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Akaishi, Tetsuya
Miura, Keiki
Iduma, Masaaki
Ishii, Tadashi
Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck
title Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck
title_full Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck
title_fullStr Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck
title_full_unstemmed Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck
title_short Retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: A rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck
title_sort retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis: a rare, benign, but painful condition with stiff neck
topic Images in Clinical Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33304727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.360
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