Postcricoid hemangioma

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Thomas Schmidt P.
Pablo Ortega R.

Keywords

Hemangioma, postcricoid, stridor

Abstract

Hemangiomas located in the postcricoid region is rare. The few published cases display dependent symptoms of their size and mainly correspond to dysphagia and stridor. This report presents the first series of cases published in Chile and a revision of literature. We presented cases of suckling babies who consulted by stridor, recurrent laryngitis, dysphagia, apneas and convulsions; 2 deal successfully with surgery with laser CO2 and one single one with observation. We discussed to the importance of nasofibroscopia flexible in the study of the stridor and dysphagia in the pediatric population, and the effectiveness of laser CO2 like option of treatment for this pathology.

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