A rare case of upper airway obstruction in an infant caused by basal encephalocele complicating facial midline deformity

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-76

  Shimizu, Tomoaki ^b   Kitamura, Seiji ^a   Kinouchi, Keiko ^a   Fukumitsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basal encephalocele; Facial midline deformity; Upper airway obstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLEFT LIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FACE DEFORMITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOSTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; EXOPHTHALMOS; FACIAL BONES; HUMANS; HYPERTELORISM; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; NOSE DISEASES; SPHENOID BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032924144     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1999.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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