Upper Airway Obstruction in a Newborn with Vallecular Cyst

Vallecular cyst is a rare cause of stridor in neonates, which may present as a life threatening airway obstruction. Here, we report a preterm infant with a congenital vallecular cyst who presented with stridor and respiratory distress that developed immediately after birth. She was successfully trea...

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Autores principales: Torer, Birgin, Cetinkaya, Bilin, Yılmaz, Serkan, Yilmazer, Cuneyt, Gulcan, Hande
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4617020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26500855
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author Torer, Birgin
Cetinkaya, Bilin
Yılmaz, Serkan
Yilmazer, Cuneyt
Gulcan, Hande
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description Vallecular cyst is a rare cause of stridor in neonates, which may present as a life threatening airway obstruction. Here, we report a preterm infant with a congenital vallecular cyst who presented with stridor and respiratory distress that developed immediately after birth. She was successfully treated with endoscopic marsupialization.
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spelling pubmed-46170202015-10-23 Upper Airway Obstruction in a Newborn with Vallecular Cyst Torer, Birgin Cetinkaya, Bilin Yılmaz, Serkan Yilmazer, Cuneyt Gulcan, Hande J Neonatal Surg Case Report Vallecular cyst is a rare cause of stridor in neonates, which may present as a life threatening airway obstruction. Here, we report a preterm infant with a congenital vallecular cyst who presented with stridor and respiratory distress that developed immediately after birth. She was successfully treated with endoscopic marsupialization. EL-MED-Pub 2015-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4617020/ /pubmed/26500855 Text en Copyright: © 2015 JNS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Gulcan, Hande
Upper Airway Obstruction in a Newborn with Vallecular Cyst
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title_short Upper Airway Obstruction in a Newborn with Vallecular Cyst
title_sort upper airway obstruction in a newborn with vallecular cyst
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4617020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26500855
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