PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Bassem Mettias AU - Stuart Robertson AU - Malcolm A Buchanan TI - Retropharyngeal abscess after chemotherapy AID - 10.1136/bcr-2017-222610 DP - 2018 Mar 05 TA - BMJ Case Reports PG - bcr-2017-222610 VI - 2018 4099 - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2017-222610.short 4100 - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2017-222610.full AB - Chemotherapy increases susceptibility to infection due to the effect on cell-mediated and humoral immunity. Retropharyngeal abscess is a serious head and neck infection that rapidly progresses from toxicity, whether the patient is neutropenic or not. The risk should be carefully assessed with any chemotherapeutic agent, especially docetaxel.