A vanishing tongue-base cyst.
A one-month-old male infant was referred because of noisy breathing sounds, feeding difficulty and shortness of breath. A lateral radiography of the neck showed abnormal soft tissue mass at tongue base. While waiting for a scheduled bronchoscopic examination, respiratory distress and noisy breathing sounds disappeared after nasogastric suctioning. Dramatic improvement in respiratory distress in a young infant with feeding difficulties may have been due to rupture of a tongue-base cyst following oropharyngeal manipulations.
Wong
Kin-Sun
KS
Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Huang
Yu-Hsuan
YH
Wu
Cheng-Teng
CT
D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013396:Suction; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed