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Odynophagia and neck pain after exercise
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  1. Catarina Faria,
  2. Inês Medeiros,
  3. Fábia Carvalho,
  4. Ana Antunes
  1. Pediatric Department, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal
  1. Correspondence to Dr Catarina Faria, catmagalhaesfaria{at}gmail.com

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A previously healthy, non-asthmatic, non-smoker, 16-year-old male came for medical attention because of odynophagia and pain located at anterior cervical area and upper retrosternal area, increasing with swallowing and deep breathing, that begun after physical exercise at gymnastic class. The adolescent also mentioned a felling of air bubbles running up and down that area. There was no history of local trauma. He referred stuffed nose and mild cough but no other respiratory complaints or fever. Physical examination was unremarkable, with normal auscultation and no alterations on …

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