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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Airway
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
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description 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 and possibly fatal complications.
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spelling pubmed-32361332012-01-05 Impending Airway Compromise due to Cystic Hygroma Weiser, Giora Beck-Razi, Nira Shavit, Itai West J Emerg Med Airway 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 and possibly fatal complications. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2011-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3236133/ /pubmed/22224119 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.2.2170 Text en the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title Impending Airway Compromise due to Cystic Hygroma
title_full Impending Airway Compromise due to Cystic Hygroma
title_fullStr Impending Airway Compromise due to Cystic Hygroma
title_full_unstemmed Impending Airway Compromise due to Cystic Hygroma
title_short Impending Airway Compromise due to Cystic Hygroma
title_sort impending airway compromise due to cystic hygroma
topic Airway
url 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
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