Subglottic edema in acute epiglottitis in children.
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.
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D004487:Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D004825:Epiglottis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006193:Haemophilus influenzae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007827:Laryngitis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography