Question: An 8 month old male is referred to you for feeding difficulties and noisy breathing. Suspecting laryngomalacia, you place the child on anti-reflux medications as first line management. The child returns with no benefit and has experienced one aspiration pneumonia since his last visit. Operative microlaryngoscopy reveals a cleft through the entirety of the cricoid cartilage without extension beyond the thoracic inlet. What type of laryngeal cleft is this? [Answer will be posted with next week's new question]
Answer to last week's question, Nose Game (March 28, 2016):
Nasal obstruction.