PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J D Eastwood
AU  - P A Hudgins
AU  - D Malone
TI  - Retropharyngeal effusion in acute calcific prevertebral tendinitis: diagnosis with CT and MR imaging.
DP  - 1998 Oct 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1789--1792
VI  - 19
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/19/9/1789.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/19/9/1789.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1998 Oct 01; 19
AB  - Three patients with the diagnosis of acute calcific prevertebral tendinitis underwent CT or a combination of CT and MR imaging, which showed previously described findings of calcifications within the tendons of the longus colli muscles. In addition, however, we detected a retropharyngeal effusion in all three patients. The importance of this finding lies in the need to differentiate this effusion from retropharyngeal infection.