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Abstract
Inflammation of the EPIGLOTTIS and supraglottic structures including the PHARYNX; UVULA; base of tongue; and aryepiglottic folds. It is usually caused by HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE in children but often by different organisms in adults.
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- Supraglottitides
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2012
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- Epiglottitis (1984-2011)
- Glottis (1970-2011)
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- National Library of Medicine. Supraglottitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D059525. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D059525
- Supraglottitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55083528