Hemal Kanzaria1, John C Stein. 1. School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Neck pain is a common presentation to the Emergency Department (ED), requiring appropriate evaluation to exclude serious pathology. OBJECTIVES: To review an atypical clinical presentation of neck pain and to distinguish this case and its associated radiographic features from more common clinical entities. CASE REPORT: We present an ED case of calcific tendonitis of the longus coli muscle. SUMMARY: Acute calcific retropharyngeal tendinitis is a rare, benign etiology of non-traumatic neck pain that is poorly recognized and often mistaken for other conditions secondary to infection or trauma. The importance of this disorder, as well as a review of the literature on the subject, is presented.
BACKGROUND:Neck pain is a common presentation to the Emergency Department (ED), requiring appropriate evaluation to exclude serious pathology. OBJECTIVES: To review an atypical clinical presentation of neck pain and to distinguish this case and its associated radiographic features from more common clinical entities. CASE REPORT: We present an ED case of calcific tendonitis of the longus coli muscle. SUMMARY: Acute calcific retropharyngeal tendinitis is a rare, benign etiology of non-traumatic neck pain that is poorly recognized and often mistaken for other conditions secondary to infection or trauma. The importance of this disorder, as well as a review of the literature on the subject, is presented.