EPIGLOTTIC ABSCESS, IMPENDING ASPHYXIA, TRACHEOSTOMY
- 1 November 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 60 (5) , 596-600
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1954.00720010611008
Abstract
IN THE past few years there have been few articles published describing disease of the epiglottis. Malignant disease of this structure usually is included as a division of laryngeal neoplasms. Benign lesions and cysts, mucus or embryonal, if small, may be asymptomatic; hence many may remain undetected. Chondromalacia and hyperplasia of the epiglottis most frequently are associated with concomitant laryngeal abnormalities.1 Primarily infectious processes of the epiglottis probably occur with relative frequency, as this review discloses (Table). Kashiwado2 has described a disorder in a group of patients with complaints of pharyngeal discomfort which he diagnosed as epiglottic neurosis. He concluded that the pathology is an anatomical abnormality of the epiglottis, ossification of the epiglottis with chronic fixation. It was reported that relief was obtained by an application of cocaine to the base of the tongue. In some patients epiglottectomy was performed. Gasser3 reported upon 25 or 26Keywords
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