Location | Typical signs and symptoms |
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Pharynx | Hot potato voice, drooling, odynophagia (painful swallowing), stertor, worse on supine position |
Supraglottis | Hot potato voice, drooling, odynophagia, inspiratory stridor |
Glottis and subglottis | Hoarse or raspy voice, normal swallowing, barking cough, inspiratory or biphasic stridor |
Tracheobronchial tree (intrathoracic) | Normal voice, normal swallowing, expiratory stridor, wheeze, etc |
Adapted from Pediatric ENT. 2007 With kind permission of Springer Science+Business Media.22
ENT, ear nose and throat.