Biomaterial Database

Laryngeal stridor due to odontoid peg subluxation. 1988

D S Brooker

E.N.T. Department, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

This is a case of a 58-year-old woman who presented with progressive stridor due to immobile vocal cords. This was found to be due to cervical cord compression by an upwardly subluxed odontoid peg. Despite surgical intervention the outcome was fatal.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D009809	Odontoid Process	The toothlike process on the upper surface of the axis, which articulates with the CERVICAL ATLAS above.	Dens Axis,Axis, Dens,Odontoid Processes,Process, Odontoid,Processes, Odontoid
D012135	Respiratory Sounds	Noises, normal and abnormal, heard on auscultation over any part of the RESPIRATORY TRACT.	Breathing Sounds,Crackles,Lung Sounds,Pleural Rub,Rales,Rhonchi,Stridor,Wheezing,Breathing Sound,Crackle,Lung Sound,Pleural Rubs,Rale,Respiratory Sound,Rhonchus,Rub, Pleural,Sound, Breathing,Sound, Lung,Sound, Respiratory,Sounds, Breathing,Sounds, Lung,Stridors,Wheezings
D004204	Joint Dislocations	Displacement of bones from their normal positions at a joint.	Inferior Dislocation,Joint Subluxations,Luxatio Erecta,Dislocation, Joint,Dislocations, Joint,Inferior Dislocations,Joint Dislocation,Joint Subluxation,Subluxation, Joint,Subluxations, Joint
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001368	Axis, Cervical Vertebra	The second cervical vertebra.	Epistropheus,C2 Vertebra,Cervical Vertebra Axis,Os Odontoideum,C2 Vertebras,Vertebra Axis, Cervical