To distract or not to distract: An algorithm for airway management in isolated Pierre Robin sequence

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1113-1125

  Schaefer, Richard B ^a,b   Stadler III, James A ^a,b   Gosain, Arun K ^a,b  

^a Medical College of Wisconsin ^*

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; BONE GROWTH; CHILD GROWTH; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MANDIBLE DISTRACTION; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXILLA; MICROGNATHIA; NERVE INJURY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; TONGUE LIP ADHESION; TOOTH INJURY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MANDIBULAR ADVANCEMENT; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 2342633300     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000110323.50084.21     Document Type: Review

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