{
  "abstract": "A patient in his 30s, who had arrived from Guinea-Bissau nine months earlier, presented to the emergency department with recent onset of odynophagia, dyspnoea, and dysphonia on a background of a posterior neck pain for the past six months. On physical examination, the patient exhibited inspiratory stridor, a bulge in the posterior pharyngeal wall extending to the right piriform sinus, and limited neck mobility. Neurological examination was unremarkable. A computed tomography scan of the neck showed a retropharyngeal abscess and osteolysis of the cervical and thoracic vertebral bodies. Magnetic resonance imaging excluded spinal cord compression (fig 1).",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Otorhinolaryngology Department at ULS Coimbra, Portugal"
      ],
      "name": "Francisca Bartolomeu"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Otorhinolaryngology Department at ULS Coimbra, Portugal"
      ],
      "name": "Catarina Rato"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Posterior neck pain",
  "uid": "3218f76f-f27f-52f8-929e-a58a88500eb7"
}