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Epiglottis - 3 months infant with laryngomalacia
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Case description
Floppiness of laryngeal cartilage which causes laryngeal obstruction during inspiration is called laryngomalacia - a condition concering the fact of immaturity of laryngeal skeleton. It can affect various cartilages - epiglottis, aryepiglottic folds and arytenoids. Infant's epiglottis with laryngomalacia is shown. We can obserbe epiglottic flip-flopping. Other cartilages are not affected. Epiglottoplasty was performed as a treatment - symptoms dissappeared.
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