Laryngomalacia: Factors that influence disease severity and outcomes of management

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 564-570

  Thompson, Dana M ^a  

^a Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

APGAR score; Chiari malformation; congenital heart disease; laryngomalacia; laryngopharyngeal reflux; outcomes; supraglottoplasty; tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RANITIDINE;

AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; APGAR SCORE; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIGLOTTOPEXY; EVENING DOSAGE; FEEDING DISORDER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LARYNGOMALACIA; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX; LARYNX SURGERY; LUNG LESION; MORNING DOSAGE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PRICING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCAR FORMATION; SECONDARY AIRWAY LESION; SUPRAGLOTTOPLASTY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME CHARGE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LARYNGOMALACIA; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; REGURGITATION, GASTRIC; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649645706     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e3283405e48     Document Type: Review

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