[Pediatric] Atlas of Acute Upper airway obstruction

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Fig 1.  Subglottic narrowing (“steeple sign”) of croup on frontal
x-ray of the neck.

Fig 2. Vascular ring (double aortic arch) on CT of the chest. 
This is a cause of congenital upper airway obstruction.

Fig 3. Subgottic stenosis another congenital cause of upper airway obstruction, seen on CT scan.  

Fig 4. Epiglottitis characterized by a round, thick epiglottis ("thumb sign")(arrow), loss of the vallecular air space and thickening of the aryepiglottic folds on lateral neck film.

Fig 5a. 

Fig 5b.

Retropharyngeal abscess (arrow) on axial cut (A)

sagittal cut and (B) CT scan.

Fig 6. Peritonsillar abscess (arrow) on CT scan in a child who developed this as a complication of group A streptococcal pharyngitis

Fig 7. Laryngeal papilloma (papillomatosis) in an infant exposed to human papilloma virus at birth.

Fig 8a.

Fig 8b.

Eosophageal foreign body on Frontal (A) and lateral (B) views of the chest x-ray in a child who swallowed a coin. 

Fig 9.  Subglottic cyst causing upper airway obstruction in a child

Fig 10. Vallecular cyst causing vallecular upper airway obstruction in an infant 

Fig 11.  Retrognathia on scout CT scan.

Fig 12a.

Fig 12b.

CT 3D reconstruction of retrognathia before (A) and

after (B) mandibular distraction

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