Anesthetic implications of chronic disease of the cervical spine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 672-683

  Popitz, Michael D ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; AIRWAY; ANATOMY; ANESTHESIA; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GROWTH; INCIDENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE DISEASE;

AGING; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; NECK; POSTURE; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPONDYLITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031053666     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199703000-00038     Document Type: Review

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