Benign Lymphoid Hyperplasia of the Tongue Base Causing Upper Airway Obstruction

Severe benign lymphoid hyperplasia (LH) is unusual in the head and neck region, but the diagnosis of LH is of clinical importance as it may be confused with malignant lymphoma, both on clinical examination and pathologically. While the etiology is poorly understood, a number of previous theories exi...

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Autores principales: Sands, Noah B., Tewfik, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937372
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/625185
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description Severe benign lymphoid hyperplasia (LH) is unusual in the head and neck region, but the diagnosis of LH is of clinical importance as it may be confused with malignant lymphoma, both on clinical examination and pathologically. While the etiology is poorly understood, a number of previous theories exist, which are included here in the context of a literature review. In this paper we present a case of severe pharyngeal lymphoid hyperplasia causing airway obstruction and requiring tracheotomy and subsequent surgical debulking.
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spelling pubmed-34205052012-08-30 Benign Lymphoid Hyperplasia of the Tongue Base Causing Upper Airway Obstruction Sands, Noah B. Tewfik, Marc Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Severe benign lymphoid hyperplasia (LH) is unusual in the head and neck region, but the diagnosis of LH is of clinical importance as it may be confused with malignant lymphoma, both on clinical examination and pathologically. While the etiology is poorly understood, a number of previous theories exist, which are included here in the context of a literature review. In this paper we present a case of severe pharyngeal lymphoid hyperplasia causing airway obstruction and requiring tracheotomy and subsequent surgical debulking. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3420505/ /pubmed/22937372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/625185 Text en Copyright © 2011 N. B. Sands and M. Tewfik. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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title_fullStr Benign Lymphoid Hyperplasia of the Tongue Base Causing Upper Airway Obstruction
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title_short Benign Lymphoid Hyperplasia of the Tongue Base Causing Upper Airway Obstruction
title_sort benign lymphoid hyperplasia of the tongue base causing upper airway obstruction
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