KEY FACTS Terminology Suppurative node = intranodal abscess Definition: Pus forms in retropharyngeal space (RPS) node draining H&N infection You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy Unlimited articles Become membership If you are…
KEY FACTS Terminology Benign enlargement of nodes in response to antigen Lateral retropharyngeal space (RPS) nodes known as "nodes of Rouvière" You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy Unlimited articles Become membership If…
Summary Thoughts: Retropharyngeal Space The retropharyngeal space (RPS) spans the length of the neck from the skull base to the mediastinum. As its name indicates, it lies posterior to the pharynx. More inferiorly in the neck it lies posterior to…
KEY FACTS Terminology Benign nerve sheath tumor in carotid space, arising from vagus nerve, sympathetic chain, or hypoglossal nerve You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy Unlimited articles Become membership If you are…
KEY FACTS Terminology Sympathetic schwannoma: Benign, slow-growing tumor of Schwann cells investing cervical sympathetic chain You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy Unlimited articles Become membership If you are a member. Log in…
KEY FACTS Terminology Benign tumor of Schwann cells that wrap around cranial nerves in carotid space (CS) Nerve of origin: CNIX-XII possible; CNX (vagus nerve) most common You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and…
KEY FACTS Terminology Glomus vagale paraganglioma (GVP) You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy Unlimited articles Become membership If you are a member. Log in here
KEY FACTS Terminology Synonyms: Carotid body tumor , glomus caroticum, chemodectoma, nonchromaffin paraganglioma You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy Unlimited articles Become membership If you are a member. Log in here
KEY FACTS Terminology Lemierre syndrome or disease Postanginal sepsis or septicemia, necrobacillosis Opportunistic infection causing septic thrombophlebitis & metastatic infection You’re Reading a Preview Become a Clinical Tree membership for Full access and enjoy Unlimited articles Become membership If you…
KEY FACTS Terminology Abbreviation: Jugular vein thrombosis (JVT) JVT : Chronic internal JV (IJV) thrombosis (> 10 days after acute event) in which clot persists within lumen after soft tissue inflammation is gone JV thrombophlebitis : Acute-subacute thrombosis of IJV…