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Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding
A 55-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with severe dyspnea and hoarseness, starting immediately after a hypotensive syncope attack at home. Pulmonary auscultation revealed generalized stridor and right-sided wheezing, with no finding in the upper airway on direct laryngoscopy. Ch...
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Thieme Medical Publishers
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28824981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1580707 |
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author | Evman, Serdar Tezel, Yelda Evman, Melis Demirag Tezel, Çagatay |
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description | A 55-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with severe dyspnea and hoarseness, starting immediately after a hypotensive syncope attack at home. Pulmonary auscultation revealed generalized stridor and right-sided wheezing, with no finding in the upper airway on direct laryngoscopy. Chest X-ray and computed thorax tomography revealed a high-density foreign body on the carina, causing partial obstruction in the right main bronchus. The fractured dental plate, probably aspirated during the syncope attack, was successfully removed by rigid bronchoscopy. The postoperative period was uneventful and the patient was discharged on the same day. Rapid physical and radiologic examination of patients with severe acute dyspnea is vital for determining the treatment modality and preventing any potential mortality. |
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spelling | pubmed-55534602017-08-18 Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding Evman, Serdar Tezel, Yelda Evman, Melis Demirag Tezel, Çagatay Surg J (N Y) A 55-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with severe dyspnea and hoarseness, starting immediately after a hypotensive syncope attack at home. Pulmonary auscultation revealed generalized stridor and right-sided wheezing, with no finding in the upper airway on direct laryngoscopy. Chest X-ray and computed thorax tomography revealed a high-density foreign body on the carina, causing partial obstruction in the right main bronchus. The fractured dental plate, probably aspirated during the syncope attack, was successfully removed by rigid bronchoscopy. The postoperative period was uneventful and the patient was discharged on the same day. Rapid physical and radiologic examination of patients with severe acute dyspnea is vital for determining the treatment modality and preventing any potential mortality. Thieme Medical Publishers 2016-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5553460/ /pubmed/28824981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1580707 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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. |
spellingShingle | Evman, Serdar Tezel, Yelda Evman, Melis Demirag Tezel, Çagatay Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding |
title | Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding |
title_full | Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding |
title_fullStr | Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding |
title_full_unstemmed | Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding |
title_short | Have You Seen My Teeth? A Case with an Extraordinary Radiologic Finding |
title_sort | have you seen my teeth? a case with an extraordinary radiologic finding |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28824981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1580707 |
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