Mass psychogenic illness presenting as acute stridor in an adolescent female cohort.

Objectives: We describe a cohort of patients with an unusual presentation of stridor, their evaluation and management, and their outcome. We review the pertinent English-language literature.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of the records of 12 adolescent patients treated for acute-onset inspiratory stridor at the Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Allergy and Immunology at the University of South Florida and the Department of Speech Pathology at the H.