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Impending Airway Compromise due to Cystic Hygroma

We report on a 3-month-old infant, who arrived in the pediatric emergency department (ED) with a cervical cystic hygroma causing an impending compromise of the airway. We recognize that such a lesion can rapidly progress, and the judicious use of imaging in the ED may help to avoid airway compromise...

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Autores principales: Weiser, Giora, Beck-Razi, Nira, Shavit, Itai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22224119
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.2.2170