Concomitant Pharyngeal Perforation and C6 Spinal Fracture in a Patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis

Autor:	SC Lu, ST Chang, TJ Liu, MM Chu
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Ankylosing spondylitis Ligamentous ossification business.industry Pharynx Perforation (oil well) medicine.disease Occult Surgery Lesion Blunt medicine.anatomical_structure Spinal fracture Emergency Medicine medicine medicine.symptom business Biomedical engineering
Zdroj:	Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine. 21:44-47
ISSN:	2309-5407 1024-9079
DOI:	10.1177/102490791402100109
Popis:	A direct blunt injury to the cervical spine is a clinically crucial issue and misdiagnosis of adjacent tissue lesion of neck may lead to poor outcomes. We present a patient with ankylosing spondylitis, who suffered from a perforation in pharynx following a neck injury. The extent of the occult right pharyngeal wall perforation may have initially been less and hence undetectable by radiological screening, either X-ray radiology or computed tomography. The combination of continuation of oral feeding and ligamentous ossification/fragility of the cervical spine accounted for the resultant pharyngeal perforation. (Hong Kong j.emerg.med. 2014;21:44-47)
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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