Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports (Feb 2018)

Laryngeal lipoma: A rare cause of pediatric airway obstruction

  • K.K. Jakobsen,
  • C. Grønhøj,
  • C. Juel,
  • B. Charabi,
  • T. Hjuler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsc.2017.11.006
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. C
pp. 63 – 65

Abstract

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Laryngeal lipoma is a rare cause of upper airway obstruction in the pediatric population. We present a case of a 6-year-old boy with a laryngeal lipoma. Diagnosis was subject to doctors-delay, but open neck surgical resection was successful.

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