Laryngitis - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment - BMJ Best Practice
2024年4月17日 · Laryngitis can be acute or chronic, infectious or non-infectious. Accompanying signs of infectious laryngitis include odynophagia, cough, fever, and respiratory distress. The most common variant is acute viral laryngitis, which is self-limiting and usually related to an upper respiratory infection. Bacterial laryngitis can be life-threatening.
Laryngitis - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ Best …
2024年4月17日 · Laryngitis can be acute or chronic, infectious or noninfectious. Accompanying signs of infectious laryngitis include odynophagia, cough, fever, and respiratory distress. The most common variant is acute viral laryngitis, which is self-limiting and usually related to an upper respiratory infection. Bacterial laryngitis can be life-threatening.
Acute pharyngitis - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment | BMJ Best ...
2024年11月22日 · Acute pharyngitis is characterized by acute onset of sore throat; the absence of cough, nasal congestion, and nasal discharge suggests a bacterial etiology.
Laryngitis - References | BMJ Best Practice US
Laryngitis is inflammation of the larynx, which can lead to edema of the true vocal folds. Causes may be infectious or noninfectious (e.g., vocal strain, reflux laryngitis, chronic irritative laryngitis). Laryngitis is often clinically diagnosed, with acute disease presenting with hoarseness that...
Labyrinthitis - Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment - BMJ Best …
2021年9月24日 · Labyrinthitis is an inflammatory condition affecting the contents of the otic capsule. This includes the cochlea, three orthogonal semi-circular canals, and the otolith organs (utricle, saccule).
Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment - BMJ Best Practice US
2024年4月16日 · Laryngeal cancer is frequently associated with smoking and alcohol consumption. Hoarseness, dysphonia, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, referred otalgia, vocal cord lesions on indirect laryngoscopy, and neck mass/adenopathy that persists for >3 weeks are sentinel signs that should be evaluated...
Differential diagnosis of symptoms - BMJ Best Practice
2024年11月22日 · Haemoptysis is the coughing of blood from a source below the glottis. It can range from a small amount of blood-streaked sputum to massive bleeding with life-threatening consequences due to airway obstruction, hypoxaemia, and haemodynamic instability.
Evaluation of hoarseness and dysphonia - BMJ Best Practice
2024年4月5日 · Dysphonia, also known as hoarseness, is a general term used to describe a variety of changes in voice quality
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Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment - BMJ Best Practice
2024年4月16日 · Laryngeal cancer is frequently associated with smoking and alcohol consumption. Hoarseness, dysphonia, sore throat, difficulty swallowing, referred otalgia, vocal cord lesions on indirect laryngoscopy, and neck mass/adenopathy that persists for >3 weeks are sentinel signs that should be evaluated...