title: [A Christmas straw goat astray].
abstract: A 22-year-old otherwise healthy man presented to our clinic with suspected acute epiglottitis. The patient had a 1-week history of pain in the throat and fever for the latest 24 hours. During the physical examination, the patient mentioned that he had been eating a Christmas straw goat at a party one week previously. Direct fiberoptic laryngoscopy showed a red and swollen lingual surface of the epiglottis, but no foreign bodies were identified. After inhalation of adrenalin, a 4 cm straw became visible in the epiglottic vallecula. Mimic of acute epiglottitis from a straw in the vallecula has to our knowledge never been described in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Øre-næse-hals-kirurgisk Klinik, Righospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 København Ø, Denmark. sunebloch@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Sune Land
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Bloch
authors.forename: Hans Ulrik Kjærem
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Nielsen
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease / Q000628:therapy; D004826:Epiglottitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D006693:Holidays; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult