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In this article we describe six cases of glossopharyngeal neuralgia. The characteristic attacks of lancinating pain in throat, ear and tongue can be accompanied by symptoms such as coughing, hoarseness, stridor and fainting. These symptoms can also occur without the pain, which may lead to frequent misdiagnosis and unnecessary investigations. The drugs of choice are carbamazepine, phenytoin and lithium. Persisting symptoms may require an operation.
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PMID:[Glossopharyngeal nerve neuralgia: not just a sore throat]. 249 57

A 3-year-old child weighing 16 kg was given 1/2 of a Centrum Multivitamin tablet. He began choking and gagging and was taken to an emergency department. He was alert and speaking without difficulty but was drooling, gagging, coughing, and unable to swallow. He was transferred to a children's hospital where he continued to drool but had bilaterally clear and equal breath sounds and no stridor, cough, or wheeze. A lateral neck x-ray was negative. The following morning, esophagoscopy revealed tablet material identified as a granular paste at the level of the cricopharyngeus. A large amount of the paste was encountered at the crossing of the aorta where the mucosa was extremely erythematous and edematous. Smaller amounts of the paste were observed until a larger amount was found at the lower esophageal junction. The material was removed with NSS irrigation, suction, and optical peanut forceps. A significant circumferential burn was present. Repeat esophagoscopy 7 days postingestion showed mucosal edema and some scarring. Nine (9) days postingestion the child's diet was normal and he was discharged.
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PMID:Drug induced esophageal injury. 260 Sep 90

A case of double aortic arch is reported. The male patient, 11-month-old, had breathed with a constant stridor since his birth and had frequent attacks of respiratory tract infection and dyspnea. The child was admitted because of restlessness, fever, stridor and cough. Dyspnea with cyanosis appeared later, and required intubation and mechanical ventilation. After then, three attempts to extubate the infant were made, but failed. A double aortic arch was suspected by bronchogram, esophagogram, and confirmed by cardiac catheterization. Through a left thoracotomy, the smaller left arch and the ligmentem arteriosum were divided to relieve the obstruction of trachea from the compression of the vascular ring. Postoperative convalescence was normal. Symptoms of double aortic arch vary with the degree of obstruction of the trachea and esophagus, ranging from mild to life-threatening respiratory obstruction and apnea. Inspiratory stridor, dyspnea, and wheezing, which are accentuated with feeding, crying, or respiratory infections, are characteristic clinical findings. The diagnosis is established by aid of an esophagography. Left thoracotomy, with division of the smaller aortic arch, is the only satisfactory treatment.
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PMID:[Double aortic arch: report of one case]. 263 8

Bacterial tracheitis is the term used to describe a severe infraglottic infection characterized by toxicity, brassy cough, inspiratory stridor, subglottic oedema and the presence of copious mucopurulent secretions in the trachea. It is an uncommon condition that requires prompt diagnosis and intensive medical therapy if significant morbidity and mortality are to be avoided. Since the condition was first described in 1979 approximately one hundred cases have been reported. In this paper we present four children with bacterial tracheitis to add to the current literature. Interestingly, one child was admitted on two separate occasions with the disease, an event not previously recorded. All patients underwent endoscopy which revealed findings typical of bacterial tracheitis in each case. None required tracheostomy though three required nasotracheal intubation. Post-endoscopy all were managed in the Intensive Care Unit. There were no fatalities or significant morbidity. The average duration of hospitalization was seven days.
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PMID:Bacterial tracheitis. 269 98

Extraction of a foreign body from the tracheobronchial tree was accomplished for 83 children. The mean age was 1 year 9 months for the 27 girls and 3 years 1 month for the 56 boys; 46 children (55%) were younger than 2 years of age. Sixteen (19%) of the foreign bodies were radiopaque, and 35 (42%) were either verified or suspected radiologically before endoscopy. Forty-one foreign bodies (49%) were situated in the right bronchial tree. Extraction was successful in 81 children (98%) and was performed on 50 children (60%) during the first 24 hours. Twenty-five (30%) of the foreign bodies were peanuts. Three children experienced a residual foreign body, without serious complications. We believe that an open tube bronchoscopy should be performed whenever abnormal stridor or cough is observed in a healthy child and when appropriate antibiotic therapy is unsuccessful.
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PMID:Tracheobronchial foreign bodies. A persistent problem in pediatric patients. 271 86

The descent of a cervical goiter below the plain of the thoracic inlet to become substernal in location, is fairly rare, but not exceptional, with an incidence, derived from several large series of operated patients, ranging from 1.7% to 13.1%. The importance of this particular location of the goiter is chiefly due to the fact that the thyroid is growing in a limited space with many surrounding structures, that unavoidably, sooner or later, will be compressed or strained. This provokes respiratory symptoms (such as cough, dyspnea, stridor) or difficulty in swallowing or determines a superior vena cava syndrome with venous stasis in the neck and in the upper thorax, and with facial oedema. The substernal location, that already constitutes a complication of the basic thyropathy, is further aggravated by the incidental malignant transformation of the substernal goiter or by the development of a thyrotoxicosis due to hyper-functioning intra-thoracic thyroid tissue. For all these reasons the presence of a substernal goiter represents in and of itself a precise indication for a surgical treatment. This study is aimed at examining the series of 19 substernal goiters observed at the Institution of General and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Milan, from 1967 to 1987, particularly analyzing the progresses in the diagnostic procedures, the adopted surgical therapy and the observed complications.
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PMID:[Cervico-mediastinal goiter]. 274 85

Pulmonary KS may occur in up to 20 to 25 per cent of patients with cutaneous KS. The presenting symptoms of pulmonary KS are indistinguishable from those of opportunistic pathogens that cause pneumonia. It most frequently presents with the symptoms of cough or dyspnea; however, fever, hemoptysis, and stridor have been reported to occur secondary to pulmonary KS. Roentgenographically, pulmonary KS may present as diffuse infiltrates, nodal disease, and/or pleural effusions. The diagnosis is established by a characteristic histologic pattern obtained from large pieces of tissue, that is, from open lung biopsy or autopsy rather than from transbronchial biopsy. No effective therapy for pulmonary KS exists; however, short-term palliation may be achieved with radiotherapy or combination chemotherapy. In a patient with known pulmonary KS who develops either new or changing symptoms or new roentgenographic findings, an attempt should be made to rule out an associated infectious process.
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PMID:Kaposi's sarcoma. 304 81

Infectious croup is a viral or bacterial syndrome characterized by a barking cough, hoarseness, and stridor. Three separate conditions will be discussed: laryngotracheobronchitis, spasmotic croup, and bacterial tracheitis. Each clinical entity will be defined and its treatment reviewed. Current treatment regimens for infectious croup involve various combinations of mist therapy, racemic epinephrine, corticosteroids, and syrup of ipecac. Tradition, rather than science, appears to be the basis of many of these treatments. Despite the frequent occurrence of infectious croup, no treatment has proved consistently successful. Prevention and better treatment methods are the keys for reducing the high cost of infectious croup to the medical care system.
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PMID:Infectious croup: a critical review. 310 93

To identify which clinical findings serve to differentiate acute epiglottitis from laryngotracheitis and also to evaluate the role of direct inspection of the epiglottis in the evaluation of children initially thought to have laryngotracheitis, we prospectively evaluated 155 children presenting to the emergency room with acute stridor. Three of the findings on physical examination were associated with epiglottitis: absence of spontaneous cough, drooling, and agitation. The diagnosis assigned prior to inspection of the epiglottis was incorrect in two of six patients with epiglottitis and in three of 149 patients with laryngotracheitis. The diagnosis made after inspection was correct in all 155 patients. Minor complications of inspection were seen in seven patients with laryngotracheitis. No complications were seen in the children with epiglottitis. We conclude that drooling, agitation, and absence of cough are predictors of epiglottitis, but clinical findings alone cannot exclude epiglottitis in every child who appears to have laryngotracheitis. When laryngotracheitis is the suspected diagnosis, inspection of the epiglottis by a pediatrician in a hospital emergency room is an effective aid to the evaluation of the child with acute stridor.
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PMID:Differentiation of epiglottitis from laryngotracheitis in the child with stridor. 336 10

Epiglottitis may occur at any age. The typical presentation in the young child and young adult is well known, but the presentation in patients at the extremes of age has not been characterized. At our locale, from 1974 to 1984, 19 children 24 months of age or less and, from 1979 to 1984, 9 adults 50 years of age or greater with epiglottitis were seen in the emergency department. In the infantile group, rapidly progressive interference with swallowing, vocalization, and respiration was encountered in less than half the patients. Symptoms were often prolonged before parents sought attention for their child. No preference was shown for maintenance of the upright position while at rest, as recumbency did not promote stridor or initiate respiratory distress. Respiratory complaints were common and included cough, tachypnea, and retractions. Drooling or retention of pharyngeal secretions was uncommon. The adult population had a history of symptoms that spanned several days. Extreme sore throat, pooling of oral secretions, muffled voice, and elevated temperature were uncommon. Dysphagia and mild respiratory complaints were frequent. Upper airway obstruction did occur. At both extremes of age, exceptions to the classic clinical pattern of epiglottitis occurred with significant frequency. Despite this, diagnosis and management in the emergency department were appropriate in most cases.
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PMID:Epiglottitis at the extremes of age. 337 97


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