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Airway obstruction due to spontaneous retropharyngeal hemorrhage
Chest
|December 1, 1975
Abstract:
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.