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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 5 | Page : 524-527 |
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Acute airway obstruction, an unusual presentation of vallecular cyst
Sameer M Jahagirdar1, P Karthikeyan2, M Ravishankar1
1 Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India
2 Department of ENT, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry, India
Correspondence Address:
Sameer M Jahagirdar
A 14, Green Avenue Apartment, Point Care Street, Mudaliyarpet, Puducherry - 605 004
India
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.89896 PMID: 22174474
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A 18-year-old female presented to us with acute respiratory obstruction, unconsciousness, severe respiratory acidosis, and impending cardiac arrest. The emergency measures to secure the airway included intubation with a 3.5-mm endotracheal tube and railroading of a 6.5-mm endotracheal tube over a suction catheter. Video laryngoscopy done after successful resuscitation showed an inflamed swollen epiglottis with a swelling in the left vallecular region, which proved to be a vallecular cyst. Marsupialisation surgery was performed on the 8 th post admission day and the patient discharged on 10 th day without any neurological deficit. |
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