title: [Abscess of the cervical soft tissues and the mediastinum resulting from an infected jaw cyst].
abstract: A woman is described in whom an infected radicular cyst of the mandible resulted in a cervical phlegmon with abscess formation and spreading into the superior mediastinum.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin, St. Franziskus-Hospital, Bielefeld.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmidtchen
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Reichelt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008336:Mandibular Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000209:etiology*; D010482:Periapical Abscess / Q000150:complications*; D011842:Radicular Cyst / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Abszess der Halsweichteile und des Mediastinums ausgehend von einer infizierten Kieferzyste.