Deep neck infection (DNI) remains an emergent and life-threatening otolaryngologic disease. We examined 69 patients, 52 men and 17 women, with DNI, who were treated in our hospital between January 1995 and December 2004.The mean age of the patients with DNI was 50.0 years and the peak incidence was in the sixth decade. Twenty patients
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