Children's Deep Neck Infections at the Montpellier Hospital

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Deep Neck Infections

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03644368

RECHMPL18_0212

Details and patient eligibility

About

To descride the clinical presentation, diagnosis, management and complications of children with a deep neck infection. A retrospective chart review was conducted at the Montpellier hospital in France. All children aged less than 18 years who had been admitted with a diagnosis of cervical phlegmon, tonsillar abscesses, retropharyngeal or parapharyngeal abscesses between January 2015 and December 2017 were included. The investigators collected the demographic, biological, radiological data and treatment received of the patients to the admision. The results of the bacteriological samples were collected. The investigators compared our results to those of the 10-year cohort. The investigators wish to compare the duration of hospitalization and the duration of the fever enter the group treated by alone antibiotic and the group treated by antibiotic and surgical drainage

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• under 18 years old
• hospitalized for acute pharyngeal infection ( cervical phlegmon, tonsillar abscesses, retropharyngeal or parapharyngeal abscesses)

Exclusion criteria

• neck infection in the context of immune deficiency
• malignancy or post-traumatic disease
• others deep neck infections: angina, otitis, sinusitis, ethmoiditis, mastoiditis.