Epiglottitis
โ Scribed by A.P. Daykin
- Book ID
- 108617562
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2409
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A 21 -year-old woman with acute lymphocytic leukemia developed clinical and radiographic signs of epiglottitis. Premortem and postmortem histologic studies showed invasive aspergillosis; Aspergillus flaws was grown in culture. The necrotizing nature of this infection is explained by the predilection
Background. Epiglottitis is more commonly seen in children less than 6 years of age, although this entity has also been well described among adults. A coalescence of infection of the epiglottis, or epiglottic abscess, has been infrequently reported in series of epiglottitis. Risk factors for epiglot