We describe a new variant of life-threatening organophosphate toxicity syndrome that produces a brief bilateral vocal cord paralysis. There are 3 recognized types of toxicity syndrome: acute (instantaneous), intermediate (slightly delayed, i.e., hours to days), and delayed (weeks to months).
Stridor is a commonly encountered presenting symptom of upper airway obstruction in the pediatric population. Although infection etiologies such as croup, retropharyngeal abscess, and epiglottitis predominate in the pediatric population, other less common etiologies must also be considered in the
The pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome is uncommon but well recognized in the adult literature. Patients have weakness in a pharyngeal-cervical-brachial distribution with relative lower limb sparing. We describe a 12-year-old boy with predominantly
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