Severe postextubation laryngeal obstruction: The role of prior neck dissection and radiation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 322-325

  Burkle, Christopher M ^a   Walsh, Michael T ^a   Pryor, Shepherd G ^a   Kasperbauer, Jan L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LARYNX EDEMA; LARYNX STENOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; NECK DISSECTION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 29844435279     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000181319.70639.3B     Document Type: Article

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