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Laryngomalacia is a condition whereby there is immaturity of the supglottic laryngeal cartilage resulting in its floppiness and causing laryngeal inlet obstruction during inspiration. It can affect the epiglottis,...

Laryngomalacia is a condition whereby there is immaturity of the supglottic laryngeal cartilage resulting in its floppiness and causing laryngeal inlet obstruction during inspiration. It can affect the epiglottis, aryepiglottic folds, and arytenoids either singly or in combinations. This video shows the epiglottis in a 3 months infant with laryngomalacia. The epiglottis flip-flopping into the laryngeal inlet during inspiration. No obvious aryepiglottic folds or arytenoids abnomalities noted. Epiglottoplasty was performed and postoperatively the abnormal movements dissappeared.