急性会厌炎是耳鼻咽喉科能引起窒息的一种危重疾病。大部分病人起病急骤，如诊断治疗不及时患者可能在较短时间发生喉梗阻。今年5月以来我科收治本病2例，原单位均误诊为其他疾病。现报告如下。例1：男，57岁，农民，因咽喉痛，吞咽加剧，发热，于1996年5月21日16时某诊所诊为 Acute epiglottitis is a critically ill disease that can cause suffocation in otolaryngology. Most patients with sudden onset, such as diagnosis and treatment is not timely patients may occur in a short time laryngeal obstruction. Since May this year, our department treated 2 cases of this disease, the original unit misdiagnosed as other diseases. The report is as follows. Example 1: Male, 57 years old, farmer, swallowing due to sore throat, fever, at 21:00 on May 21, 1996, a clinic diagnosed as