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Images in emergency medicine
Retropharyngeal abscess secondary to a foreign body
  1. H Rumbold
  1. Correspondence to Dr H Rumbold, Department of Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK; helenrumbold{at}yahoo.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.064956

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