title: Neck abscess: five year retrospective review of Hospital University Kebangsaan Malaysia experience.
abstract: The most commonly involved space was the parapharyngeal and superficial anterior triangle followed by submandibular, retropharyngeal, posterior triangle and submental spaces respectively. Thirty-three percent of patients had diabetes mellitus as a predisposing factor. More than half of them had no known aetiological cause for the neck abscess. We encountered one mortality in an elderly patient with diabetes who succumbed to overwhelming septicaemia despite early abscess drainage and intensive medical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mazita
authors.forename: M Y S
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Hazim
authors.forename: M A R
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Megat Shiraz
authors.forename: S H A
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Primuharsa Putra
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends