Evaluation of Pediatric Upper Airway Diseases with Rigid Telescope Video Laryngoscopy


KETENCİ İ., VURAL A., KÖKOĞLU K., ŞAHİN M. İ.

GUNCEL PEDIATRI-JOURNAL OF CURRENT PEDIATRICS, cilt.17, sa.2, ss.253-264, 2019 (ESCI) identifier identifier

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INTRODUCTION: It is hard to make a differential diagnosis of upper airway diseases in pediatrics. Best method is direct visualization. Flexible nasopharyngoscopy is the most performed method. Rigid telescope-video laryngoscopy (RTVL) could be an alternative in patients who can not be performed flexible nasopharyngoscopy. It is aimed to review RTVL results of pediatric patients for the evaluation of upper airway problems.