Synonyms

Increased retropharyngeal space in infants or children

Is A

Increased prevertebral space

May Be Caused by

 Common

Cervical spine fracture

Cervical spine injury

Enlarged adenoids

Enlarged lymphoid tissue

Inflammatory lymphadenopathy

Pharyngeal perforation

Pyogenic adenitis

Retropharyngeal abscess

Retropharyngeal cellulitis

 Uncommon

Angiofibroma

Branchial cleft cyst

Duplication cyst

Ganglioneuroma

Hemangioma

Hypothyroidism

Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Large intracranial arteriovenous malformation

Leukemia

Lipoma

Lymph fluid

Lymphadenopathy

Lymphangioma

Lymphoma

Metastasis

Neuroblastoma

Plexiform neurofibroma

Primary spinal neoplasm

Retropharyngeal goiter

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Sinus histiocytosis

Spinal metastasis

Spinal osteomyelitis

Spine fracture

Superior vena cava syndrome

Teratoma

Traumatic pharyngeal pseudodiverticulum

Tuberculosis

Vein of Galen aneurysm