Acromegaly and papillomatosis: Difficult intubation and use of the airway exchange catheter

Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 787-789

  Hulme, G J ^a   Blues, C M ^b  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b N General Hospital NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; acromegaly; Equipment; exchange bougie; Intubation, tracheal; fibreoptic; Larynx; papillomatosis

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LARYNX PAPILLOMATOSIS; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ACROMEGALY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLOMA; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0032784095     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.00901.x     Document Type: Article

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