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What causes cartilage in throat to swell?
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What cartilage?: Can you please tell me which cartilage? There are no cartilages in the throat that you can see. They are deeper. Swelling of the deeper cartilages are from allergies, infection, post radiation, tumor etc.
Answered 6/15/2014
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