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Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 943090, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/943090
Case Report

Ingestion and Pharyngeal Trauma Causing Secondary Retropharyngeal Abscess in Five Adult Patients

Sudhir B. Sharma1 and Paul Hong2,3

1Department of Surgery, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana
2Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University, P.O. Box 9700, Halifax, NS, B3K 6R8, Canada
3School of Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada

Received 12 September 2012; Accepted 31 October 2012

Academic Editors: H. David, K. Imanaka, C. H. Loh, and H. P. Wu

Copyright © 2012 Sudhir B. Sharma and Paul Hong. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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