A 50-year-old woman arrived with progressive neck pain and stiffness, 3 years after a whiplash injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash. Previous diagnoses included cervical spondylosis and muscle ...

Torticollis refers to a condition in which the sternocleidomastoid muscle is shorter (and sometimes tighter) on one side of the neck, causing the head to tilt toward the shortened muscle, while at the ...

- one of two thick muscles running from the sternum and clavicle to the mastoid and occipital bone; turns head obliquely to the opposite side; when acting together they flex the neck and extend the ...

A 60-year-old white female with a known diagnosis of NF1 was evaluated in the emergency department of an outside hospital with a 3-day history of neck pain and swelling, associated with severe ...

Congenital lesions account for more than half of excised cervical masses in children; 20% of them are branchial cleft anomalies, including cysts, sinuses and fistulas.1 Second branchial cleft lesions ...