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Pediatric laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS), a narrowing of the airway in children, is a complex medical condition. While it can be something a child is born with or caused by injury, the condition can result in a life-threatening emergency if untreated.
Treatment, however, is challenging. Depending on the severity, doctors will use a combination of endoscopic techniques, surgical repair, tracheostomy, or deployment of stents to hold the airway open and enable breathing.
On the night of Dec. 12, the freighter Cisnes arrived in Hong Kong carrying 240 containers of Chilean cherries the first sea shipment of the season. From there, it continued onward to Shenzhen. The shipment was primarily composed of Royal Dawn (145 containers), Santina (71), Glen Red (9), Bing (5), Lapins (2) and Royal Lynn (2) cherry varieties, mainly of size J.
After passing spot checks at Hong Kong customs that night, the first batch of three containers arrived and were opened at the Jiangnan Fruit Wholesale Market around 3 p.m. local time on Dec. 13. The atmosphere at the market was electric, as many wholesalers had traveled long distances the day before and waited all night to be the first to get their hands on the newly arrived cherries. As of the morning of Dec. 14, a total of 70 containers had been opened at the Jiangnan Wholesale Fruit Market. By 10 a.m. that same morning, the first sea shipment of Chilean cherries had already arrived at Shanghai’s Huizhan Market and b