Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass
We report on a 70-year-old male patient admitted to the internal medicine department for evaluation of a right cervical mass. He had been treated with antibiotics as an outpatient by his primary care doctor. Upon admission the patient was asymptomatic, but within a few hours his cervical mass enlarg...
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| author | Léa Docquier Xavier Jannot Zaida Córdoba-Sosa Léa Pierre Pierre Alexis Austrusseau Emmanuel Andres Noel Lorenzo Villalba |
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| description | We report on a 70-year-old male patient admitted to the internal medicine department for evaluation of a right cervical mass. He had been treated with antibiotics as an outpatient by his primary care doctor. Upon admission the patient was asymptomatic, but within a few hours his cervical mass enlarged; this enlargement was confined to the right sternocleidomastoid muscle. Complete blood investigations including serology and autoimmunity were negative. The neck scan and MRI were in favour of myositis. No other lesions were found either in the nasal fibre-optic exam or in the thoracic-abdominal-pelvic scan. The biopsy of the muscle showed a lymphoplasmacytic inflammatory infiltrate of the perimysium. The diagnosis of focal myositis was made. The patient clinically improved during hospitalisation with complete resolution of symptoms without any specific intervention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a483aa3fafa344d2bee511629f8455562023-06-07T14:14:15ZengSMC MEDIA SRLEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine2284-25942023-05-0110.12890/2023_0039193454Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical massLéa Docquier0Xavier Jannot1Zaida Córdoba-Sosa2Léa Pierre3Pierre Alexis Austrusseau4Emmanuel Andres5Noel Lorenzo Villalba6Service de Médecine Interne. Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgService de Médecine Interne. Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgServicio de Medicina Interna. Hospital General de FuerteventuraService de Médecine Interne. Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgService de Radiologie Interventionnelle. Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgService de Médecine Interne. Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgService de Médecine Interne. Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgWe report on a 70-year-old male patient admitted to the internal medicine department for evaluation of a right cervical mass. He had been treated with antibiotics as an outpatient by his primary care doctor. Upon admission the patient was asymptomatic, but within a few hours his cervical mass enlarged; this enlargement was confined to the right sternocleidomastoid muscle. Complete blood investigations including serology and autoimmunity were negative. The neck scan and MRI were in favour of myositis. No other lesions were found either in the nasal fibre-optic exam or in the thoracic-abdominal-pelvic scan. The biopsy of the muscle showed a lymphoplasmacytic inflammatory infiltrate of the perimysium. The diagnosis of focal myositis was made. The patient clinically improved during hospitalisation with complete resolution of symptoms without any specific intervention.https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/3919neck massessternocleidomastoid musclemagnetic resonance image (mri) |
| spellingShingle | Léa Docquier Xavier Jannot Zaida Córdoba-Sosa Léa Pierre Pierre Alexis Austrusseau Emmanuel Andres Noel Lorenzo Villalba Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine neck masses sternocleidomastoid muscle magnetic resonance image (mri) |
| title | Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass |
| title_full | Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass |
| title_fullStr | Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass |
| title_full_unstemmed | Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass |
| title_short | Focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle: a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass |
| title_sort | focal myositis of the sternocleidomastoid muscle a rare and uncommon cause of cervical mass |
| topic | neck masses sternocleidomastoid muscle magnetic resonance image (mri) |
| url | https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/3919 |
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