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Emergency Medicine Test Prep

Category - Head, Facial, Neck, and Spine Trauma

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A 20 year old patient was brought to the emergency department having penetrating trauma to his neck his major symptoms were hoarseness of voice , hemoptysis, odynophagia and stridor according to these signs and symptoms which organ is most probably injured ?

Injury to esophagus
Injury to heart
injury to stomach
injury to larynx and trachea

Explanation

Answer: D - The presence of stridor and hemoptysis are suggestive of major injury to larynx and trachea. Hoarseness stridors produce because of injury to larynx and trachea. Stomach esophagus has nothing with that

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