Allergic reaction to ortho-phthalaldehyde following flexible laryngoscopy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2349-2352

  Atiyeh, Kimberly ^a   Chitkara, Ajay ^b   Achlatis, Stratos ^a   Branski, Ryan C ^a   Amin, Milan R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ENT and Allergy Associates LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

allergy; Laryngoscopy; ortho phthalaldehyde; voice

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MEPIVACAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHTHALALDEHYDE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGY TEST; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; COUGHING; CYSTOSCOPY; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE LARYNGOSCOPE; FLEXIBLE LARYNGOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGIST; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LEUKOPLAKIA; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOSE EDEMA; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SCROTAL SWELLING; SKIN PRURITUS; SKIN TEST; SNEEZING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROAT TIGHTNESS; TONGUE EDEMA; TONGUE SWELLING; URTICARIA; VERY ELDERLY; ADULT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISINFECTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; O-PHTHALALDEHYDE;

EID: 84942817247     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.25421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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