Tracheal stenosis in infancy.

INTRALARYNGEAL FOREIGN BODY. On the afternoon of Saturday, December 10, 1955, Stephen, a boy aged 14 months, was playing on the kitchen floor when his mother suddenly noticed that his breathing had become wheezy. His medical practitioner diagnosed a foreign body in the airpassages and he was brought to Dunedin Hospital for emergency treatment. Immediate bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia showed a small piece of bone (2 cm. x 2 cm. x cm.) wedged firmly between the vocal cords. It was readily removed with peanut grasping forceps. OEDEMA OF GLOTTIS AND TRACHEOSTOMY.-Eighteen hours later, on December 11, he was discharged home. He was apparently well throughout the following day, but on the evening of Tuesday, December 13, he was readmitted seriously ill with acute oedema of the glottis accompanied by deep indrawing of the chest wall with every breath. Under local anaesthesia a tracheostomy was performed with immediate relief.