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A 2-year-old child is scheduled for pharyngoscopy and biopsy for a pharyngeal mass. The child is breathless but has no stridor. The mouth opening is adequate, with a good view of the uvula. The chest X-ray is normal, and the lateral X-ray of the soft tissues of the neck shows a large supraglottic soft-tissue mass. This mass projects from the posterior pharyngeal wall into the larynx, which is narrowed by approximately 70 %.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2013). Case 27: A Patient with Supraglottic Mass. In: Near Misses in Pediatric Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7040-3_27
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