The retropharyngeal abscess (retropharyngeal abscess) - is formed as a result of pyeses of lymph nodes and a fat of retropharyngeal space. Contagiums get on lymphatic ways from a nasal cavity, a nasopharynx, an acoustical pipe and a middle ear. Sometimes the abscess is complication of a flu, reproach, scarlatinas, and also can develop at wounds of a mucosa of a back wall of pharynx by an alien body, firm nutrition. It is observed, as a rule, at early children's age at the exhausted and weakened children.

Signs, current. Complaints to a sharp pain are characteristic at a swallowing, thus the nutrition quite often gets in a nose. The patient refuses nutrition. At a locating of an abscess in a nasopharynx nasal respiration is broken, there is a closed nasonnement. At diffusion of an abscess on the bottom departments of pharynx there is the inspiratory dyspnea, accompanied wheezing, especially in vertical position of the patient. The body temperature reaches 39-40 degrees. The compelled position of a head is characteristic: it is thrown back back and inclined in the sick party. The tumescence behind of an angle of a mandible and on a first line of a thoracal clavicular mastoid muscle is quite often observed.