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A Glottic Wood Chip Presenting as Chronic Dysphonia
Report of a Case and Review of the Literature
Brian J. Baumgartner, MD;
Karen L. Peterson, MD
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006;132:98-100.
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INTRODUCTION
Chronic dysphonia is an unusual presentation of a retained laryngeal foreign body secondary to a penetrating neck injury. We describe a patient with a retained laryngeal foreign body and a relatively remote history of a penetrating neck injury, discuss the diagnosis and treatment, and present a review of the literature. The unusual location of this foreign body and the extended duration of symptoms before diagnosis are of value in raising clinical suspicion in other cases with similar presentations.
REPORT OF A CASE
A 54-year-old self-employed male carpenter was cutting wood with his table saw in February 2005, when a wood fragment kicked back and lodged in the anterior region of his neck. He immediately removed the external fragment and presented to an outside emergency department with dysphonia but no shortness of breath. A computed tomogram of his neck showed air tracking around the thyroid cartilage but . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
Author Affiliations: Departments of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, Tacoma (Dr Baumgartner), and Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle (Dr Peterson), Wash.
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