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A Review, with Report of Two Cases

MAURICE D. GRANT, M.D.; GOODLATTE B. GILMORE, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1948;47(4):446-454.

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INFECTIVE and suppurative diseases of the neck are nearly always secondary to primary foci in the head. Infections of tonsils, pharynx, teeth and nasal accessory sinuses are the most common etiologic sources. Otitis media, a Bezold abscess in mastoiditis, petrositis, infection of the base of the tongue, infection of the floor of the mouth, thrombosis of the pterygoid plexus of veins—all have been responsible for deep infections of the neck. Infected lymph glands, especially those in the retropharyngeal space, may be the source of a deep cervical abscess. Trauma occurring in the mouth, in the pharynx or the esophagus as a result of the presence of a foreign body is occasionally causative. A tuberculous abscess of the body of one of the cervical vertebrae may rupture and burrow into a deep fascial plane of the neck to give rise to a cold abscess.

Infection may be carried from one of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Otolaryngologic Service, Morrisania City Hospital.

Footnotes
Read before the Bronx Otolaryngological Society, Nov. 26, 1946.

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