Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening Condition
Several are the causes of cervical masses and among them a spontaneous hemorrhage presents a rare and life-threatening condition. Sometimes hemorrhage develops from a previous silent neck lesion as in the case of an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma associated with bleeding. We present two cases: a 70-y...
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| description | Several are the causes of cervical masses and among them a spontaneous hemorrhage presents a rare and life-threatening condition. Sometimes hemorrhage develops from a previous silent neck lesion as in the case of an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma associated with bleeding.
We present two cases: a 70-year-old woman suffering from enlarging cervical mass causing respiratory distress because of upper airway compression due to a spontaneous rupture of the superior thyroid artery and a 74-year-old woman who drew our attention because of a progressively worsening dyspnea due to a large medial cervical mass with rapid onset. We removed it surgically, finding out an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma that is associated with internal bleeding.
We discuss our management of these rare and life-threatening conditions, recalling that the patency of upper airway should always be the prerogative in every emergency. Besides, we make a review of the recent literature. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3a479ef7e9734813b6ca0192df08bf632025-08-20T02:07:46ZengWileyCase Reports in Medicine1687-96271687-96352014-01-01201410.1155/2014/674176674176Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening ConditionEnrico Maria Amadei0Laura Benedettini1Ottavio Piccin2Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Via Pietro Albertoni 15, 40138 Bologna, ItalyDepartment of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, Bufalini Hospital, Viale Ghirotti 286, 47521 Cesena, ItalyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Via Pietro Albertoni 15, 40138 Bologna, ItalySeveral are the causes of cervical masses and among them a spontaneous hemorrhage presents a rare and life-threatening condition. Sometimes hemorrhage develops from a previous silent neck lesion as in the case of an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma associated with bleeding. We present two cases: a 70-year-old woman suffering from enlarging cervical mass causing respiratory distress because of upper airway compression due to a spontaneous rupture of the superior thyroid artery and a 74-year-old woman who drew our attention because of a progressively worsening dyspnea due to a large medial cervical mass with rapid onset. We removed it surgically, finding out an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma that is associated with internal bleeding. We discuss our management of these rare and life-threatening conditions, recalling that the patency of upper airway should always be the prerogative in every emergency. Besides, we make a review of the recent literature.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/674176 |
| spellingShingle | Enrico Maria Amadei Laura Benedettini Ottavio Piccin Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening Condition Case Reports in Medicine |
| title | Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening Condition |
| title_full | Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening Condition |
| title_fullStr | Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening Condition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening Condition |
| title_short | Two Cases of Cervical Hemorrhage with Upper Airway Obstruction: A Life-Threatening Condition |
| title_sort | two cases of cervical hemorrhage with upper airway obstruction a life threatening condition |
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