Mouth opening: A new angle

Anesthesiology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 799-801

  Calder, Ian ^a   Picard, John ^d   Chapman, Martin ^b   O'Sullivan, Caoimhe ^c   Crockard, H Alan ^d  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d Natl Hosp for Neurol/Neurosurg ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH; MOUTH BREATHING; MOVEMENT; NECK; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 0141655212     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200310000-00009     Document Type: Article

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