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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Roby, Brianne Barnett
• Zapapas, Laura M.
• Fenton, Laura Z.
• Arganbright, Jill M.
• Friedman, Norman
• Prager, Jeremy

Titel

Chronic stridor in a nine-month-old—Consider esophageal foreign body

Ist Teil von

• International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology extra, 2016-09, Vol.13, p.26-29

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We present the case of a 9-month-old female with seven weeks of stridor. Initial lateral neck radiograph showed widening of the retropharyngeal space with significant mass effect displacing the cervical and thoracic trachea. She was taken emergently by ENT to the operating room for intubation. In the OR, flexible fiberoptic nasotracheal intubation was achieved. Through multimodality imaging and several procedures, she was found to have ingested part of a Christmas ornament, which lodged in the esophagus, causing a perforation with retropharyngeal phlegmon. This compressed the airway, causing respiratory distress. She improved on intravenous antibiotics and the ornament was retrieved endoscopically.