Difficult airway in a child with spinal muscular atrophy type I

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 342-344

  Arima, Hajime ^a   Sobue, Kazuya ^a   Tanaka, Sayuki ^a   Morishima, Tetsuro ^a   Ando, Hiroshi ^a   Katsuya, Hirotada ^b  

^a Okazaki City Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Difficult intubation; Micrognathia; Retrograde intubation; Spinal muscular atrophy type I; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIGLOTTIS; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INFANTILE HYPOTONIA; LASER SURGERY; MICROGNATHIA; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOTOMY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD;

EID: 0037715376     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.01042.x     Document Type: Article

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