Down's syndrome with lingual tonsil hypertrophy producing sleep apnoea.
A 12-year-old girl is presented with Down's syndrome and lingual tonsillitis causing sleep apnoea. In order to overcome her sleep apnoea she adopted a functional sleeping posture. The sleep apnoea was successfully treated by a single staged lingual tonsillectomy without preliminary tracheostomy. A return to a normal sleeping posture occurred spontaneously in the early post-operative period.
Phillips
D E
DE
Department of Otolaryngology, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool.
Rogers
J H
JH
D002648:Child; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D014066:Palatine Tonsil / Q000473:pathology*; D011187:Posture; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D014059:Tongue / Q000473:pathology*