A subglottic mass mimicking near-fatal asthma: a challenge of diagnosis

Upper airway obstruction due to a subglottic tumor can be easily misdiagnosed as bronchial asthma. We report on a 50-year-old woman who was ultimately diagnosed with subglottic tumor, but who presented with near-fatal asthma. According to her medical history she had been treated with high doses of p...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of emergency medicine 2004, Vol.26 (1), p.57-60
Hauptverfasser:	Kokturk, Nurdan, Demir, Nalan, Kervan, Firdes, Dinç, Erdem, Koybasioglu, Ahmet, Turktas, Haluk
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Airway Obstruction - etiology Asthma - diagnosis Diagnosis, Differential Female Glottis Hemangioma - complications Hemangioma - diagnosis Humans Laryngeal Neoplasms - complications Laryngeal Neoplasms - diagnosis Magnetic Resonance Imaging Middle Aged Near-fatal asthma Subglottic mass
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