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Throat pain is one of the most frequent complaints prompting patient visits to healthcare professionals. Primary care physicians being the first contact point are frequently encountered with symptoms such as sore throat and odynophagia. However, high level of diagnostic uncertainty exists when the oropharyngeal examination is normal despite patients' complaints of severe pain. We present four C...

Acute infectious epiglottitis, or supraglottitis, is a potentially fatal disease. It is reported infrequently in adolescents, but its exact prevalence in this age group is unclear. We describe the course and treatment of a 16-year-old girl who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with acute infectious epiglottitis. This will be followed by a review of epiglottis in the 12-18-year age grou...

Abstract Background Acute supraglottitis (AS) can cause airway obstruction, sometimes necessitating intervention. Some scope classifications were developed to predict the need for intervention in patients with AS; however, most suitable classification predicting remains unclear. Objective This study was performed validate and compare usefulness of three (Katori's, Tanaka's, Ovnat-Tamir's classi...