An Uncommon Case of Partial Airway Obstruction due to Lingual Tonsillar Hypertrophy

Obstruction of the airway is a medical emergency. If it is not treated immediately, rapid and potentially life-threatening hypoxia develops. A 70-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and palatine tonsillectomy presented to our tertiary care hospital with dysphagia, odynophagia, muffled voic...

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Autores principales: Mukherjee, Aveek, Ghosh, Raisa, Anandam, Anil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32607293
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8309

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32607293
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8309

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