SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Serious Pain in the Neck
ALiEM
OCTOBER 16, 2023
An otherwise healthy 34-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with two weeks of anterior neck pain. Symptoms began with several days of pain in his mandibular molars, progressing to pain and swelling in the neck. In the last several days, the patient developed warmth and redness in the chest wall associated with subjective fever and chills.
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