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Cervical osteophytes: a cause of potentially life-threatening laryngeal spasms. Case report.
Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine 2006 May
This 80-year-old woman presented with acute breathing difficulty during neck flexion when cyanosis also developed. The only potential causes were detected on cervical magnetic resonance imaging: two large anterior cervical osteophytes compressing the retropharyngeal space. Excision of these osteophytes resulted in resolution of the symptoms.
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