A term baby boy presented to our institution with stridor and cyanosis. He was born at 40 weeks gestation at the referring hospital to a 23-year-old primigravida woman by vacuum-assisted vaginal ...

There are 2 main ways in which patients may experience dyspnea originating in the larynx. First, there may be structural interference with air flow due to an anatomic abnormality. In other words, ...

CHEVALIER Jackson, 1 in 1937, made the following comment: "Untold thousands of infants have asphyxiated because of bilateral abductor paralysis — the cyanosis being attributed to a persistent foramen ...

A PREVIOUS publication 1 discussed the etiology, the signs, the symptoms and the laryngeal picture of cricoarytenoid arthritis. Since the publication of this paper, which was based on 4 cases, 13 ...

The most common symptom of laryngeal cancer is a hoarse voice without another cause, such as a cold or the flu. Other symptoms include a persistent sore throat, painful swallowing, and trouble ...

Babies born with laryngomalacia—a type of birth defect— make a noisy sound when they breathe. In fact, this condition is the most common cause for your infant's noisy breathing. The noise tends to get ...