A one-month-old male infant was referred because of noisy breathing sounds, feeding difficulty and shortness of breath. A lateral radiography of the neck showed abnormal soft tissue mass at tongue base. While waiting for a scheduled bronchoscopic examination, respiratory distress and noisy breathing sounds disappeared after nasogastric suctioning. Dramatic improvement in respiratory distress in a young infant with feeding difficulties may have been due to rupture of a tongue-base cyst following oropharyngeal manipulations.
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AFFILIATION: Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
