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Radiography of the cervical spine showing an aspect of retropharyngeal collection and the presence of a radio opaque foreign body
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Radiography of the cervical spine showed an aspect of a retropharyngeal collection associated with a radio -opaque foreign body (Figure 1), and a cervical CT scan had objectified a retropharyngeal abscess without disco-vertebral lysis confirming the presence of the foreign body (Figure 2).
Cervical CT scan objectifying a retropharyngeal collection without discovertebral lysis and also confirming the presence of the foreign body
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Radiography of the cervical spine showed an aspect of a retropharyngeal collection associated with a radio -opaque foreign body (Figure 1), and a cervical CT scan had objectified a retropharyngeal abscess without disco-vertebral lysis confirming the presence of the foreign body (Figure 2).
Cervicothoracic CT control objectifying migration of foreign body in the level of mediastinum with the presence of a mediastinal collection (A,B)
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A cervicothoracic CT scan control was made and had objectified this time the migration of foreign body at the level of the mediastinum, associated with a mediastinal collection thus requiring an emergency reoperation in collaboration with a thoracic surgeon (Figure 3).