Diseases of the ear, throat and nose (otolaryngology)

Acute and chronic stenosis of larynx and trachea

Stenosis is understood as narrowing the laryngeal lumen and (or) the trachea, which disrupts the entry of air into the respiratory tract and lungs. In terms of the stenosis are divided into acute, developing for a short time (up to 1 month), and chronic, forming slowly (more than 1 month).

Acute and chronic laryngitis: treatment

Treatment of acute catarrhal laryngitis is carried out on an outpatient basis. All patients with edematous laryngitis, epiglottitis and epiglottis abscesses, complicated forms of the disease (infiltrative and abscessing) are at hospitalization in a hospital with a threat of development of stenosis of the larynx as well as injuries.

Acute and chronic laryngitis: diagnosis

Patients with a catarrhal form of acute or chronic laryngitis do not need a special examination. Ballroom with acute abscessing, infiltrative and chronic laryngitis is performed by a comprehensive clinical examination.

Acute and chronic laryngitis: symptoms

Symptoms of laryngitis are hoarseness, coughing and difficulty breathing. For acute forms is characterized by a sudden onset of the disease with a general good condition or with a slight malaise.

Acute and chronic laryngitis: causes and pathogenesis

Acute laryngitis comparatively rarely develops as an independent disease and can be inflammatory and non-inflammatory in nature. Usually acute laryngitis is a symptom complex of ARVI (influenza, parainfluenza, adenovirus infection), in which the mucous membrane of the nose and throat, and sometimes the lower respiratory tract (bronchi, lungs) is also involved in the inflammatory process.

Acute and chronic laryngitis

Laryngitis is an inflammation of the larynx of any etiology. Chronic edema-polypous laryngitis is often called polypoid hypertrophy, polypoid degeneration, polypous laryngitis, Reinke edema and Reinke-Gayek disease.

Hyphalic abscess: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Hyperal abscess (retropharyngeal abscess, posterior pharyngeal abscess) - purulent inflammation of the lymph nodes and loose fiber between the fascia of the pharyngeal musculature and the pre-invertebrate fascia.

Tumors of the laryngopharynx

Of benign tumors of the laryngopharynx, the most common are papilloma, somewhat less often - hemangioma, rarely - neoplasms, developing from muscle tissue (leiomyoma, rhabdomyoma), neurin, fibroma, etc.

Malignant tumors of the oropharynx: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Of malignant tumors of the oropharynx, cancer is observed more often, rarely sarcoma, and lymphoepithelioma and lymphomas are rarely seen. Malignant tumors develop mainly in individuals over 40 years of age.

Benign tumors of the oropharynx: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Neoplasms of the middle pharynx make, according to different authors, from 0.5 to 5% of all human tumors. As well as neoplasms of other localizations, tumor lesions of the oropharynx are liable to tumor-like formations and true tumors. True tumors can be benign and malignant.

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