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From: Fish bone foreign body presenting with an acute fulminating retropharyngeal abscess in a resource-challenged center: a case report

Figure 1

Lateral view X-ray showing the soft neck tissue and revealing widening of the prevertebral space containing areas of mixed opacity and lucency extending from the base of the skull to the level of the seventh cervical spine (C7), with the laryngeal air column almost obliterated, anterior displacement of the airway and straightening of the cervical spine.

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Journal of Medical Case Reports

ISSN: 1752-1947