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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Wheezing, Pediatric Age
• “Hysterical” glottic closure
• Aspiration
• Asthmatic bronchitis
• Atopic asthma
• Bronchiolitis obliterans
• Cardiac failure
• Cigarette smoke, other environmental insults
• Cystic fibrosis
• Endobronchial masses
• Enlarged lymph node
• Exercise-induced asthma
• Extrinsic compression of airways
• Food, saliva, gastric contents
• Foreign body
• Gastroesophageal reflux
• Infection-associated airway reactivity
• Laryngotracheoesophageal cleft
• Lung cysts
• Mediastinal tumor
• Other hypersensitivity reactions: hypersensitivity pneumonitis, tropical eosinophilia, visceral larva migrans, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
• Pharyngeal incoordination or neuromuscular weakness
• Primary ciliary dyskinesia
• Pulmonary hemosiderosis
• Reactive airways disease
• Salicylate-induced asthma and nasal polyposis
• Sequelae of bronchopulmonary dysplasia
• Tracheobronchomalacia
• Tracheoesophageal fistula, H type
• Vascular ring
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