Back to Basics: A Case of Adult Epiglottitis

The authors report a case of a 69-year-old female with difficulty swallowing and neck swelling and review the clinical presentation, radiographic features and treatment of adult epiglottitis. Epiglottitis remains a medical emergency, with the potential for airway compromise. The authors present this...

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Autores principales: Ramlatchan, Sidhartha R, Kramer, Nicholas, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30613442
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3475
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description The authors report a case of a 69-year-old female with difficulty swallowing and neck swelling and review the clinical presentation, radiographic features and treatment of adult epiglottitis. Epiglottitis remains a medical emergency, with the potential for airway compromise. The authors present this case because it is a potentially life-threatening infection that warrants prompt diagnosis and management. This case is worth reporting because epiglottis in adults can have a milder and less classic presentation that sometimes results in delayed recognition.
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spelling pubmed-63143922019-01-04 Back to Basics: A Case of Adult Epiglottitis Ramlatchan, Sidhartha R Kramer, Nicholas Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine The authors report a case of a 69-year-old female with difficulty swallowing and neck swelling and review the clinical presentation, radiographic features and treatment of adult epiglottitis. Epiglottitis remains a medical emergency, with the potential for airway compromise. The authors present this case because it is a potentially life-threatening infection that warrants prompt diagnosis and management. This case is worth reporting because epiglottis in adults can have a milder and less classic presentation that sometimes results in delayed recognition. Cureus 2018-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6314392/ /pubmed/30613442 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3475 Text en Copyright © 2018, Ramlatchan et al. 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 author and source are credited.
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title_short Back to Basics: A Case of Adult Epiglottitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30613442
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3475
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