Paediatric laryngotracheobronchomalacia is a rare and extremely challenging scenario with risk of complete airway collapse under general anaesthesia. Laryngomalacia causes the supralaryngeal structures during inspiration as it associated short aryepiglottic folds, redundant arytenoid mucosa prolapsing into glottis long curled epiglottis. Tracheomalacia tracheo-bronchomalacia are characterized b...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Our study evaluates the efficacy of extraluminal bioresorbable plates to treat refractory localized airway malacia in patients undergoing corrective surgery for complex multilevel laryngotracheal stenosis. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS Secondary malacic airway segments were characterized (severity, site, type) by a dynamic transnasal flexible laryngot...

one of the most preventable causes of mental and growth retardation is congenital hypothyroidism (ch). this study tries to investigate growth and mental outcome of patients with ch. since november 2006 and november 2007 in guilan province, north of iran, all neonates who were diagnosed with ch, evaluated for etiology of ch by laboratory follow up, thyroid sonography or scan. growth and developm...