Long-term complications of artificial airways

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 457-471

  Sue, Richard D ^a   Susanto, Irawan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b S Monica Univ of California LA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOMALACIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GRANULOMA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; LARYNX STENOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SORE THROAT; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOMALACIA; TRACHEOTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 0141763938     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-5231(03)00048-0     Document Type: Review

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