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Transcervical drainage of epidural and retropharyngeal abscess.

Abstract
This report describes treatment of concurrent epidural and retropharyngeal abscesses and presents a novel surgical approach to treating this pathology. The treatment of epidural and retropharyngeal prevertebral abscesses requires surgical drainage in addition to systemic antibiotics. After the patient's airway is secured, urgent otolaryngologic surgery consultation is obtained for transoral drainage of the retropharyngeal abscesses to minimize risk to vascular and nervous structures within the neck. If epidural extension is also present, urgent neurosurgical evaluation and decompression may be necessary. We report a patient with an epidural and prevertebral abscess. A posterior approach was taken for wide decompression of the cervical spine and evacuation of the epidural collection. During this procedure, under fluoroscopic guidance, an 8 Fr soft rubber catheter was slowly advanced ventrally in the epidural space through the C5-6 intervertebral disk into the retropharyngeal abscess with evacuation of this collection as well. Using a single, wide posterior approach, the dorsal epidural, the ventral epidural, and prevertebral abscesses were all successfully evacuated. This report describes a novel approach for evacuation of prevertebral abscess concurrent with multilevel laminectomy for epidural abscess evacuation.
AuthorsDaniel S Yanni, Michael LaBagnara, Rohith Saravanan, Antonios Mammis, Ira M Goldstein
JournalJournal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (J Clin Neurosci) Vol. 17 Issue 5 Pg. 636-8 (May 2010) ISSN: 1532-2653 [Electronic] Scotland
PMID20188569 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Decompression, Surgical
  • Drainage (methods)
  • Epidural Abscess (surgery)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Retropharyngeal Abscess (surgery)

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