Life-threatening upper airway obstruction after tongue base surgery

Anesthesiology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 532-534

  Szokol, Joseph W ^a,c   Wenig, Barry L ^a   Murphy, Glenn S ^a   Drezek, Elizabeth ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; ISOFLURANE; NEOSTIGMINE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; ORAL SURGERY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONGUE; TRACHEOTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0035093567     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200103000-00028     Document Type: Article

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