After incubation of the epiglottic swab specimen on 5% sheep blood agar plates at 37°C in 5% carbon dioxide, the predominant colonies found were large and beta-hemolytic.

A 4-year-old boy developed epiglottitis with fever, sore throat and inspiratory stridor over the course of an afternoon. By direct epiglottic culture group G Streptococcus was identified as the ...

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The procedure can prevent epiglottic collapse by tensioning the hyoepiglottic ligament, tensioning the lateral airway walls, and anteriorly displacing the tongue base.

Selective intubation of patients should be considered in patients presenting with rapid clinical progression, features suggestive of upper airway obstruction, respiratory distress and laryngoscopic ...

One of important issues for speech production is to investigate the relation of acoustic features and fine morphological structures of the vocal tract. This study aims to examine morphological ...

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Stage 3 laryngeal cancer is throat cancer that may have spread just beyond the larynx and nearby lymph nodes but not to distant parts of the body.

Laterolateral epiglottic collapse (LLEC) is defined as an epiglottic prolapse that moves in a latero-medial direction. Statistical Analysis To quantify the minimum number of samples with a confidence ...

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