Neck pain as a presenting symptom in malignant hypertension.
Neck pain, unrelated to trauma, is relatively common and is usually presumed to be musculoskeletal in origin. A patient presented with an unusual and serious cause of neck pain-malignant hypertension. The mechanism of the neck pain may be incipient tonsillar herniation of the cerebellum caused by raised intracranial pressure.
Stockwell
J
J
Horton General Hospital NHS Trust, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
George
G
G
D000328:Adult; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D019547:Neck Pain / Q000209:etiology*