Life-threatening airway obstruction caused by a retropharyngeal haematoma

Anaesthesia

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 674-678

  Senthuran, S ^a   Lim, S ^a   Gunning, K E ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway; obstruction; Complications; haematoma, retropharyngeal

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; PHARYNX; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; X RAY;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0032838011     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.00890.x     Document Type: Article

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