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Chest, Vol 68, 840-842, Copyright © 1975 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Airway obstruction due to spontaneous retropharyngeal hemorrhage

MG Genovesi and DH Simmons

A patient is described with polycythemia vera who was taking anticoagulants and developed a spontaneous retropharyngeal hemorrhage after a violent sneezing episode. This progressed to tracheal compression with stridor after he had taken some aspirin for relief of the neck pain. An emergency tracheostomy was life saving.




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