Prediction and Surgical Management of Difficult Laryngoscopy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 776-778

  Kikkawa, Yayoi Suzuki ^a   Tsunoda, Koichi ^b,d   Niimi, Seiji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; TONGUE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; TONGUE;

EID: 1842557884     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200404000-00036     Document Type: Article

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