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Neck pain
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DDx
- Acute or chronic cervical strain, eg, poor sleeping posture, whiplash injury
- Osteoarthritis, eg, cervical spondylosis on x-ray
- Herniated disk (discogenic neck pain)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Compression fracture
- Osteomyelitis
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Metastatic cancer
- Spinal stenosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Deep neck infection, eg, Ludwig’s angina
- Thyroiditis
- Shoulder disorder
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Temporal (giant cell) arteritis
- Carotid artery aneurysm or carotid dissection
- If myelopathy (eg, bilateral upper extremity findings, lower extremity spasticity or weakness, bladder dysfunction): osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord tumor, syringomyelia, tropical spastic paresis (HTLV-1)
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DDx
- Acute or chronic cervical strain, eg, poor sleeping posture, whiplash injury
- Osteoarthritis, eg, cervical spondylosis on x-ray
- Herniated disk (discogenic neck pain)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Compression fracture
- Osteomyelitis
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Metastatic cancer
- Spinal stenosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Deep neck infection, eg, Ludwig’s angina
- Thyroiditis
- Shoulder disorder
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Temporal (giant cell) arteritis
- Carotid artery aneurysm or carotid dissection
- If myelopathy (eg, bilateral upper extremity findings, lower extremity spasticity or weakness, bladder dysfunction): osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord tumor, syringomyelia, tropical spastic paresis (HTLV-1)
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Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Neck Pain." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114011/all/Neck_pain.
Zeiger RFR. Neck pain. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114011/all/Neck_pain. Accessed March 28, 2023.
Zeiger, R. F. (2015). Neck pain. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114011/all/Neck_pain
Zeiger RFR. Neck Pain [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. [cited 2023 March 28]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114011/all/Neck_pain.
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