Recognised cause of stridor in newborn –
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- Cystic hygroma
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- A Vascular ring
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- Laryngomalacia
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- All are true
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Stridor
- Stridor refers to the physical finding of excessively noisy breathing and is general due to airway obstruction.
Causes of Stridor in a child.
Infections
- Croup (laryngotracheobronchitis)
- Epiglotitis
- Bacterial tracheitis
- Retropharyngeal abscess
Congenital
- Laryngomalacia
- Vocal cord palsy
- Subglottic stenosis
- Vascular ring
- Saccular cyst
Neoplasms
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Subglottic hemangioma
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Larynge’al papillomas
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Cystic hygroma, when it occurs in larynx then it can cause respiratory tract obustruction - Nelson 18th/e p. 1773