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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Walters, Ben
• Lovett, Amy
• Yang, Ding
• Ross, Elizabeth

Titel

Bless you"- a case of oropharyngeal perforation secondary to sternutation

Ist Teil von

• Otolaryngology case reports, 2022-09, Vol.24, p.100444, Article 100444

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Spontaneous perforation of the pharynx has been rarely reported in the literature. Cases of barotrauma from stifling a sneeze have been reported previously. Symptoms are often non-specific which makes diagnosis challenging. We report a case of 63-year-old man nearing completion of chemoradiotherapy for base of tongue squamous cell carcinoma who was referred after feeling a ‘tearing’ sensation in his neck after sneezing. This is the first case reported in the literature of oropharyngeal perforation secondary to a sneeze in a patient with a head and neck tumour undergoing radiotherapy.