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Revista de la Asociación Médica del Centro Médico ABC

2022, Number 2

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An Med Asoc Med Hosp ABC 2022; 67 (2)

External laryngeal trauma: presentation of a case treated at the ABC Medical Center and review of the literature

Juárez FJCM, López CA, Pacheco RMA, Pérez DRBGR, Romo MJA

Language: Spanish
References: 52
Page: 109-118
PDF size: 430.75 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Acute external laryngeal trauma is rare but potentially lethal injury, which if it is not recognized in time and treated properly can have a significant morbidity, mainly due to a combination of dysphonia, aspiration and airway stenosis, which occurs in up to 25% of cases, with an overall mortality rate of 17.9%. We present the case of a 28-year-old male patient who presented laryngeal fracture when falling from a bicycle, which was managed surgically by laryngeal repair, reduction and fixation of the thyroid cartilage with placement of a Montgomery splint and tracheostomy


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