1. Stridor due to symptomatic Chiari II malformation: three cases of delayed diagnosis
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Eric Levey
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Neurology ,business.industry ,Decompression ,Stridor ,education ,fungi ,Delayed diagnosis ,lcsh:RC346-429 ,Surgery ,Intermittent stridor ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Developmental Neuroscience ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,medicine ,Neurosurgery ,Vp shunt ,medicine.symptom ,Vocal cord paresis ,business ,lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system - Abstract
Results Case #1 E.M. was born with MMC, closed the day of birth. Discharged home from the NICU at 13 days of life with stable mild ventriculomegaly. Parents reported intermittent stridor starting at about 2-1/2 months of age and increasing in frequency and severity. After about 6 weeks, was evaluated by ENT and found to have vocal cord paresis. Referred to neurosurgery and had VP shunt placement followed one week later by Chiari decompression.
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