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Causes of neck stiffness in children

Causes of neck stiffness in children
Trauma
  • Clavicular fracture*
  • Epidural hematoma of the cervical spine
  • Fracture of the cervical spine
  • Muscular contusion or neck spasm*
  • SCIWORA syndrome
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • Subluxation of the cervical spine
Infectious or inflammatory
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Branchial cleft or thyroglossal duct cyst abscess
  • Cervical lymphadenitis*
  • Collagen vascular disease (eg, systemic JIA, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis)
  • Infections of the spine – Vertebral osteomyelitis, infectious discitis, epidural abscess
  • Intervertebral disc calcification
  • Kawasaki disease with cervical lymphadenopathy
  • Lyme meningitis
  • Muscle strain*
  • Otitis media and mastoiditis
  • Pharyngitis or tonsillitis*
  • Retropharyngeal abscess
  • Rotary atlantoaxial subluxation as a result of local inflammation or procedure (Grisel syndrome)
  • Upper lobe pneumonia
  • Viral meningitis
  • Viral myositis
Tumors, other space-occupying and vascular lesions of the central nervous system
  • Brain tumor
  • Other space-occupying lesions of the spinal cord (neurenteric cyst, arteriovenous malformation, syringomyelia)
  • Other tumors of the head and neck (osteoid osteoma, eosinophilic granuloma, orbital tumor, acoustic neuroma, osteoblastoma, metastatic tumor to the spine, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, bone cyst)
  • Spinal cord tumor
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage (aneurysm rupture-congenital, sickle cell disease)
Congenital conditions
  • Atlantoaxial instability secondary to congenital conditions (Down syndrome, Klippel-Feil syndrome, os odontoideum, Morquio syndrome)
  • Benign paroxysmal torticollis
  • Congenital muscular torticollis*
  • Skeletal malformations (Klippel-Feil syndrome, Sprengel deformity, hemiatlas, basilar impression, occipitocervical synostosis)
Miscellaneous
  • Dystonic reaction
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Ophthalmologic, neurologic, and/or vestibular causes (strabismus, cranial nerve palsies, extraocular muscle palsies, refractive errors, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, migraine headaches)
  • Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
  • Psychogenic
  • Sandifer syndrome
  • Spasmus nutans
  • Spontaneous pneumomediastinum

JIA: juvenile idiopathic arthritis; SCIWORA: spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality.

* Common condition.

¶ Life-threatening condition.

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