TY - JOUR T1 - Retropharyngeal abscess after chemotherapy JF - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-2017-222610 VL - 2018 SP - bcr-2017-222610 AU - Bassem Mettias AU - Stuart Robertson AU - Malcolm A Buchanan Y1 - 2018/03/05 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2017-222610.abstract N2 - 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. ER -