Patient 1 had a neck ultrasound that revealed not only a multinodular ... The interpreting radiologist thought this lesion could possibly be an abscess, cyst, neoplasm or something else.

Outpatient follow-up thyroid-stimulating hormone remained normal, and a thyroid ultrasound ... A CT scan of the neck is helpful to determine the cause of unexplained neck abscess.

An infection in the deep neck space causes a retropharyngeal abscess. The condition can cause fatal airway obstruction, so doctors treat it as a medical emergency. A person’s symptoms can ...

A woman was left paralysed and unable to feed herself after doctors failed to realise she had an abscess in her neck. Jean Warne, 74, was left partially paralysed and unable to lift her arms ...