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Dexamethasone as an adjunct in oropharyngeal obstruction in a patient with leukemia
1Department of Medicine, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
Incipient airway obstruction due to fulminating bacterial infection of pharyngeal tissues requires prompt and definitive intervention. A case is presented in which dexamethasone was a key adjunct to antibiotic therapy in averting this problem in a severely neutropenic patient with acute leukemia.