Citation

Jitpakdee P, Steele T, Bhuskute A, Setabutr D. Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol. 2016; 85: 166-169.

Affiliation

Cohen's Children's Medical Center, Hofstra University School of Medicine | Northwell Health, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, New Hyde Park, NY, USA. Electronic address: dsetabutr@northwell.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijporl.2016.03.030

PMID

27240517

Abstract

Less than one percent of trauma admission cases are categorized as pediatric neck trauma. Nevertheless, due to an increasingly mobile society, there has been an increasing frequency of pediatric neck trauma with motor vehicle accidents being the most common mechanism of injury. We present a case of laryngotracheal separation from a blunt, clothesline injury to the neck in a pediatric patient. We also review the literature and discuss the benefit of balloon airway dilation and its assistance in the management of laryngeal trauma and its resultant effects.

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