{"pk":19209,"title":"Benign Nuchal Rigidity: The Emergency Department Evaluation of Acute Prevertebral Calcific Tendonitis","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Acute prevertebral calcific tendonitis (APCT) is a rare condition, the exact incidence of which isunknown. It is of particular interest to the emergency physician owing to the other potentiallydevastating conditions in the differential diagnosis of neck stiffness and/or odynophagia (includingretropharyngeal abscess, infectious spondylitis, and meningitis.) In contrast, APCT has a benignclinical course and can be easily managed in the emergency department. We will present a case ofAPCT, followed by a brief discussion of the disease and current literature. [West J Emerg Med.2012;13(1):114–116.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"longus colli"},{"word":"tendinitis"},{"word":"prevertebral"},{"word":"calcification"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"otolaryngology"},{"word":"radiology"}],"section":"Neurology","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vz1k51n","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Zachary","middle_name":"","last_name":"Levy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Christiana Care Health System, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Newark,\nDelaware","department":"None"},{"first_name":"James","middle_name":"","last_name":"Carroll","name_suffix":"","institution":"Christiana Care Health System, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Newark,\nDelaware","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Heather","middle_name":"","last_name":"Farley","name_suffix":"","institution":"Christiana Care Health System, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Newark,\nDelaware","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-04-09T21:33:38Z","date_accepted":"2011-04-09T21:33:38Z","date_published":"2012-02-24T21:47:23Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19209/galley/9510/download/"}]}