There was a 19 year old male who presented to the ED. He had been having a sore throat for several days. He also had difficulty swallowing. The ER physician ordered a CT soft tissue neck with IV contrast. I questioned him to clear him for the dye. I injected 60 cc of Omnipaque 350 at 2.0 cc per second. After a 50 second delay, I scanned him. I then reformatted the images into sagittal and coronal view for the radiologist. The radiologist read the images off PACS as a 3.5 cm diameter right tonsillar abscess with right reactive jugular adenopathy.
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