The position of taste buds around the human mouth, pharynx and larynx is outlined in many texts. While their distribution, histological differences and taste sensitivity on the dorsum of the tongue are well described, extralingual taste buds are described in far less detail both in adults (Bannister, 1995) and neonates (Lalonde & Eglitis, 1961). Studies on a variety of grazing mammals (e.g. Bra...

479 The Editor, A 7‐year‐old male child visited preoperative clinic for preanesthetic evaluation. He was posted for urological procedure. On history, he was first child of normal parents. On examination, he was 35 kg in weight and having course facial features. At birth, he was diagnosed to have high anorectal malformations (ARMs), penoscrotal hypospadias, polydactyly, bilateral congenital tali...

Laryngeal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare form of that most commonly presents with dysphagia and weight loss. We report case 75-year-old Vietnamese male who presented dysphagia, odynophagia, 30-pound loss over the two months prior to presentation. Nasopharyngeal evaluation with microdirect laryngoscopy was performed as part workup revealed lesions epiglottis left vocal cord. A tissue biopsy quantif...

conclusions our study revealed weak correlation between pe/e-vc and cormack-lehane grade, with 87% sensitivity and 30% specificity. therefore, we concluded that sonographic measurement criteria are not accurate in airway evaluations before anesthesia. results it was observed that correlations between the pre-epiglottic space (pe) and cormack-lehane grades i, ii, and iii were weak. correlations ...

We report an unusual case of a neonate with aphonia due to epiglottitis with a concomitant methicillin-resistant S taphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection of the genitalia and associated septic emboli to the groin area and mouth. We postulate that the MRSA infection caused a transient bacteremia that seeded the epiglottis, likely causing the epiglottitis. In the evaluation of a neonate with aphon...