Lingual tonsil hypertrophy with difficult airway and uncontrollable bleeding

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 390-391

  Tokumine, J ^a   Sugahara, K ^a   Ura, M ^a   Takara, I ^a   Oshiro, M ^a   Owa, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DYSPHONIA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LETTER; OROPHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDATION; TONSIL DISEASE; TONSILLECTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; TONGUE; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0037386233     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03095_10.x     Document Type: Letter

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