The unexpected difficult airway and lingual tonsil hyperplasia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 124-132

  Ovassapian, Andranik ^a   Glassenberg, Raymond ^a   Randel, Gail I ^a   Klock, Allan ^a   Mesnick, Paul S ^a   Klafta, Jerome M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BODY WEIGHT; CHIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INCIDENCE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MANDIBLE; MOUTH; OBESITY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TONGUE; TONSIL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRUNK; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TONSIL;

EID: 0036304088     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200207000-00018     Document Type: Article

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