Tubercular Retropharyngeal Abscess in Early Infancy-Rare Presentation of a Common Infection: A Case Report

Abstract

Retropharyngeal abscesses in children are acute-infectious and non tubercular in nature. We present a rare case of tubercular retropharyngeal abscess presenting in early infancy. Patient was born to a mother who was diagnosed within four weeks of delivery with tubercular meningitis. Within six weeks of being born, the child developed fever and tubercular lymphadenopathy, possibly a manifestation of latent tubercular hematogenous infection transmitted to the child from mother in utero.

Keywords

• infants
• perinatal tuberculosis
• retropharyngeal abscess
• tuberculosis