The pediatric airway: a review of differential diagnosis by anatomy and pathology.

Abstract In children, lesions involving and affecting the airway are numerous and vary in origin. Categorizing these lesions by origin (traumatic, inflammatory, congenital or developmental, neoplastic, and vascular) or by anatomy (nasal airway and nasopharynx, oral airway and oropharynx, larynx, trachea, and extrinsic lesions) will aid in narrowing the differential diagnosis and may guide imaging.