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. 1978 Oct;131(4):603-5.
doi: 10.2214/ajr.131.4.603.

Subglottic edema in acute epiglottitis in children

G D Shackelford, M J Siegel, W H McAlister

Subglottic edema in acute epiglottitis in children

G D Shackelford et al. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1978 Oct.

Abstract

Analysis of airway radiographs of 20 children with proven acute epiglottitis revealed that five (25%) had, in addition to supraglottic edema, localized subglottic edema radiographically indistinguishable from that seen in croup. In all five patients the etiologic organism was Hemophilus influenzae type B.

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