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Figureďż˝ 5: (a) A 1-year-old girl with retropharyngeal abscess. Axial enhanced computed tomography image showing large collection (arrowheads) filling both sides of the retropharyngeal space. Collection causes marked obliteration of airway (asterisk). There are enhancing septations and thick enhancing wall. (b) A 47-year-old man with retropharyngeal edema due to cervical spine epidural abscess. Axial fat-suppressed T1 MRI scan showing fluid collection. (arrowheads) filling the retropharyngeal space from side to side with mild mass effect. There is also hyperintensity in the right longus colli muscle and other prevertebral muscles. (curved arrow). |
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