Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction

Elongated uvula is relatively an uncommon condition. Upper airway obstruction is often a missed complication of such a rare condition. Clinical presentations of upper airway obstruction often mimic asthma. Hence it is very easily mis-diagnosed as asthma. Spirometry offers a very simple test to diagn...

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Autores principales: Paliwal, Rajiv, Patel, Satish, Patel, Purvesh, Soni, Hiren
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20539769
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59266
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author Paliwal, Rajiv
Patel, Satish
Patel, Purvesh
Soni, Hiren
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description Elongated uvula is relatively an uncommon condition. Upper airway obstruction is often a missed complication of such a rare condition. Clinical presentations of upper airway obstruction often mimic asthma. Hence it is very easily mis-diagnosed as asthma. Spirometry offers a very simple test to diagnose upper airway obstruction very early and easily. Once diagnosed, the management of elongated uvula, almost exclusively, is surgical excision leading to total cure. Here is a case report of such a rare condition.
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spelling pubmed-28787102010-06-10 Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction Paliwal, Rajiv Patel, Satish Patel, Purvesh Soni, Hiren Lung India Case Report Elongated uvula is relatively an uncommon condition. Upper airway obstruction is often a missed complication of such a rare condition. Clinical presentations of upper airway obstruction often mimic asthma. Hence it is very easily mis-diagnosed as asthma. Spirometry offers a very simple test to diagnose upper airway obstruction very early and easily. Once diagnosed, the management of elongated uvula, almost exclusively, is surgical excision leading to total cure. Here is a case report of such a rare condition. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2878710/ /pubmed/20539769 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59266 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction
title Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction
title_full Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction
title_fullStr Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction
title_full_unstemmed Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction
title_short Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction
title_sort elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20539769
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.59266
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