title: Life-threatening upper airway obstruction in a child caused by retropharyngeal emphysema.
abstract: A 2 1/2-year-old boy with acute obstructive lung disease from adenovirus infection developed cough-induced paroxysms of intense dyspnoea leading to respiratory failure. Chest x-ray and fluoroscopy demonstrated retropharyngeal air occluding the airway. The clinical management of this and similar air-leak problems is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway. eirik.skogvoll@medisin.ntnu.no
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Skogvoll
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Grammeltvedt
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aadahl
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Mostad
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Slørdahl
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008478:Mediastinal Emphysema / Q000150:complications*