منابع مشابه
Operative management of choanal atresia: a 15-year experience.
OBJECTIVE To analyze factors affecting 15-year surgical outcomes of choanal atresia repair. DESIGN Case series. SETTING Tertiary care pediatric hospital. PATIENTS Between April 17, 1996, and March 23, 2010, a total of 42 patients aged 3 days to 15 years underwent endoscopic or transpalatal choanal atresia repair by our pediatric otolaryngology faculty. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Reoperation ...
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Choanal atresia is caused by failure of resorption of the bucco-pharyngeal membrane during embryonic development. The atresia can be membranous or bony in nature, but is usually mixed in most cases. When the atresia is bilateral, newborns can have severe airway distress and cyanosis is alleviated by crying. Bilateral choanal atresia is managed with an oropharyngeal airway. Flexible nasal endosc...
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Congenital choanal atresia (CCA) is the developmental failure of the nasal cavity to communicate with the nasopharynx. Bilateral choanal atresia is potentially life threatening in newborns. Most of these cases present early in life with cyclical phases of respiratory distress and apnoea, which gets relieved by crying. In fewer cases it goes undiagnosed to present in adult life with rhinorrhoea ...
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Congenital choanal atresia (CCA) is the developmental failure of the nasal cavity to communicate with nasopharynx. Surgical repair is recommended in the first weeks of life in bilateral cases because this is a life-threatening situation in newborns. This is a case report of a full-term, healthy newborn baby presenting with intermittent attacks of cyanosis and respiratory distress soon after bir...
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We have treated a total of 15 patients (11 girls, 4 boys) for choanal atresia in the University Department of Otorhinolaryngology during a period of 15 years from 1963-1976. No other cases occurred in their families. One patients is mentally retarded, whereas none of the others have had other congenital defects. Five patients (4 girls, 1 boy) had bilateral choanal atresia. In all 5 cases, the b...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2168-6181
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2013.1111