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Pediatric emergency care · Oct 2014
Case ReportsEpiglottitis as a presentation of leukemia in an adolescent.
- Daniel Jonathan Kagedan, Maya Haasz, Neil Kumar Chadha, and Sanjay Vinod Mehta.
- From the *Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; †Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein University, New York, NY; ‡Pediatric Emergency Medicine, St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY; §Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, B.C. Children's Hospital; and ∥Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Wilson Centre for Research In Education, Centre for Faculty Development, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014 Oct 1;30(10):733-5.
AbstractEpiglottitis is a life-threatening entity that can present in children or adults. Although the incidence has declined since the introduction of the Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine in 1985, cases continue to be identified in high-risk populations. In pediatric oncology patients specifically, epiglottitis has been reported after initiation of chemotherapy. We report the first case of epiglottits as the initial presentation of leukemia in a pediatric patient.
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