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Upper airway obstruction due to a change in altitude: first report in fifty years

BACKGROUND: Air travel mostly causes minor ear, nose and throat complaints. We describe a second report in literature of airway obstruction caused by a drop in atmospheric pressure during a routine commercial flight. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54-year-old male was referred to a head and neck surgeon with...

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Autores principales: Butskiy, Oleksandr, Anderson, Donald W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26830022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40463-016-0121-y