Airway management in conjoined twins: A rare indication for the EXIT procedure

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-60

  Ossowski, Kathryn ^a   Suskind, Dana L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MC1035 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONJOINED TWINS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; LUNG CLEARANCE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREECLAMPSIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL CORD;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 12144252925     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.131.1.58     Document Type: Article

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