Airway management in patients with pituitary disease: A review of 746 patients

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-77

  Nemergut, Edward C ^a   Zuo, Zhiyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Airway management; Cushing disease; Endocrinopathies; Endotracheal intubation; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BOUGIE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX RATIO; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; ADENOMA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CUSHING SYNDROME; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33644876315     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ana.0000183044.54608.50     Document Type: Article

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