A vallecular cyst is a benign laryngeal that rarely causes symptoms in adults. We report rare case of an infected man who his 60s with diabetes mellitus. The patient presented to us acute onset voice muffling and respiratory distress. He showed signs sepsis upper airway obstruction. had spikes high-grade fever elevated total white cell count (predominantly neutrophil count) C reactive protein l...

Sir,—The article by Dr. Thomas on the above topic (Brit. J. Anaesth. (1964), 36, 314) prompts me to describe an interesting case I had some time ago. A male patient in his fifties was anaesthetized with thiopentone and paralyzed with suxamethonium. Laryngoscopy was performed using a Macintosh laryngoscope and a large broad epiglottis was visualized. When slight pressure was transmitted to the v...

Corresponding author: Ji Young Lee, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yeouido St. Mary Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, 62, Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-713, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3779-1944, Fax: 82-2-783-0368, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-...

Introduction: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has displayed increasing incidence in the last decades. It is estimated that up to 20% of tuberculosis cases affect extra-pulmonary organs. In the ENT area, soft palate and tongue are the least probable locations.   Case Report A 62-year-old female with a history of rheumatoid arthritis and treatment with corticosteroids and Adalimumab, d...

Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) ranks first for head and neck malignancies, radiotherapyis a recommended treatment. Most post-radiotherapy NPC patients experience oropharyngeal dysphagia thatresults in pharyngeal residue. Pharyngeal residue is thought to be risk factor aspiration-penetration.Objective: Examining the correlation between penetration-aspiration postradiotherapy patients...

The present cephalometric study aimed to describe the antero-posterior diameters of the pharyngeal airway in a sample of 50 male obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) patients and a reference sample of 103 male students, and to examine the relationship between these diameters and the posture of the head and the cervical column. Subjects were recorded in the cephalometer standing with the head in its n...