Calcific retropharyngeal tendinitis

✍ Scribed by David Karasick; Stephen Karasick

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 457 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-2348
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00361865

✦ Synopsis

Calcific r e t r o p h a r y n g e a l tendinitis is an imf l a m m a t i o n of the longus colli muscle tendon which is located on the anterior surface of the verterbral column extending from the atlas to the third thoracic vertebra. The acute i n f l a m m a t o r y condition is selflimiting with s y m p t o m s consisting of a gradually increasing neck pain often associated with throat pain and difficulty swallowing. The pain is aggravated by head and neck movement. Clinically the condition can be confused with r e t r o p h a r y n g e a l abscess, meningitis, infectious spondylitis, and p o s t -t r a u m a t i c muscle spasm. The r a d i o g r a p h i c features of this condition consist of pre-vertebral soft tissue swelling from C1 to C4 and a m o r p h o u s calcific density in the longus colli tendon anterior to the b o d y of C2 and inferior to the anterior arch of C1.