Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury with the laryngeal mask

Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-192

  Brimacombe, J ^b   Keller, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Complications; Equipment; Laryngeal mask airway

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISLOCATION; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; TECHNIQUE; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

AGED; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE;

EID: 0032951032     PISSN: 09392661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-1999-176     Document Type: Article

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