Emergency adenotonsillectomy for acute airway obstruction

Internal laryngopyocele presenting as acute airway obstruction.

A laryngopyocele forms when a laryngocele becomes infected and fills with mucopus. We report a case of an internal larngopyocele that presented as airway obstruction in a 34-year-old man; such a presenting sign is exceedingly rare. We also review the anatomy, etiology, and clinical course of the different types of laryngoceles.

Parapharyngeal tumor presenting as acute airway obstruction.

Tumors of the parapharyngeal space account for 0.5% of head and neck neoplasms. The parapharyngeal space is actually a potential space located lateral to the upper pharvnx. This bilateral fat containing region extends from the skull base to the hyoid bone. The parapharyngeal space is further compartmentalized by thick fascial layers that direct tumor growth. Among the salivary gland neoplasms, ...

Acute airway obstruction--an unusual cause.

A 69 year old woman arrived in the emergency department after a collapse at home. The ambulance crew found her in a low cardiac output state, unresponsive other than to painful stimulation. On arrival she was brady-cardic, hypotensive, and deeply cyanosed. Ventilation by means of a bag-and-mask system could not be achieved; she was therefore intu-bated. Her condition improved after atropine 0.6...

Aerophagia resulting in acute airway obstruction.

Emergency partial thyroidectomy under cervical block to relieve severe acute airway obstruction from thyroid cancer.

A 75 year old male, Nigerian, retired civil servant presented to the Surgical Endocrine Unit of the Olabisi University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria with features of severe acute airway obstruction from advanced thyroid cancer. He was immediately worked up for an emergency partial thyroidectomy within an hour of arrival in the hospital under superficial bilateral cervical blockage using 2%...