A case of difficult airway due to lingual tonsillar hypertrophy in a patient with Down's syndrome

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 704-705

  Nakazawa, Koichi ^a   Ikeda, Daisuke ^a   Ishikawa, Seiji ^a   Makita, Koshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

AIRWAY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GLOTTIS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; JET VENTILATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LINGUAL TONSILLAR HYPERTROPHY; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0042830556     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000074347.64382.A4     Document Type: Article

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