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Fellows Corner: When AOM Progresses to Acute Mastoiditis

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Acute mastoiditis is the most common complication of acute otitis media. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are imperative to prevent potential progression to sigmoid sinus thrombosis, meningitis, encephalitis, or intracranial abscess.

Advanced Sleep Surgery: Are There Options After T&A?

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When tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy doesn’t resolve obstructive sleep apnea, and CPAP is no longer tolerated, what’s an ENT to do? See if hypoglossal nerve stimulator implantation could be an alternative sleep apnea treatment for your patients.

iSGS: Rare Tracheal Narrowing Is Even Rarer in Children

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With symptoms such as hoarseness and exertional stridor, dyspnea and pain with swallowing that overlap a variety of throat and airway conditions, idiopathic subglottic/tracheal stenosis is a difficult diagnosis to make, especially in children.

Otitis Media: Surgical Expectations

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A 5- to 10-minute surgery can end repeated acute otitis media, sparing children multiple courses of antibiotics and reducing the risk of hearing loss. Here’s how you can set expectations for parents.

Alumni Notes Summer 2023

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It’s hard to believe another academic year has ended. We have graduated another outstanding class of pediatricians and welcomed another 60 (!) or so interns to the CHOP family.

Make the Diagnosis: Spring 2023

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An 11-year-old girl with no significant past medical or surgical history presented to her PCP after approximately 2 months of progressive hoarseness and exertional stridor and dyspnea.

News at CHOP: Spring 2023

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See CHOP’s role in new treatments for Friedreich’s ataxia, low-risk thyroid cancer, and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).