An epiglottic entrapment is an upper airway abnormality that can cause poor performance in athletic horses. A team of researchers from the University of Montreal recently developed a safer ...

Omaha Beach horse and jockey Mike Smith won’t be running in the 2019 Kentucky Derby after an exam revealed an entrapped epiglottis. What is that?

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.

We report severe airway obstruction and distress at birth, in a term newborn, caused by a congenital epiglottic cyst. A 3751 g female infant was born at 41 weeks to a 22-year-old mother following ...

From the following article Radiographic evaluation of motility of mouth and pharynx Bronwyn Jones GI Motility online (2006) doi:10.1038/gimo25 BACK TO ARTICLE ...

He said rest alone might not heal the lesion, so antibiotic treatment is also important, especially with epiglottic swelling, tissue distortion, or tissue discoloration.

CONCLUSION: Pretreatment CT measurements of tumor volume permits stratification of patients with supraglottic SCC treated with RT alone (which allows preservation of laryngeal function) into groups in ...