Airway complications of infant botulism: Ten-year experience with 60 cases

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 234-239

  Anderson, Timothy D ^a,b,c   Shah, Udayan K ^a,b,d   Schreiner, Mark S ^a,b   Jacobs, Ian N ^a,b  

^a University of Pennsylvania ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULISM; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STRIDOR; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; TRACHEA PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; METHODOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036512342     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.122385     Document Type: Article

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