ACUTE INTERNAL JUGULAR-VEIN THROMBOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH PSEUDOABSCESS OF THE RETROPHARYNGEAL SPACE

We present four patients in whom evidence of edema or a pseudomass in the retropharyngeal space was found on CT scans obtained after thrombo sis of the internal jugular vein. The clinical condition of one patien t led to surgery, which documented the sterility of the retropharyngea l space despite the CT appearance of an inflammatory process. The CT f indings, which are confusing initially, are found to be typical in ret rospect.