Upper-airway obstruction after short posterior occipitocervical fusion in a flexed position

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Yoshida, Makoto ^a   Neo, Masashi ^a   Fujibayashi, Shunsuke ^a   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Complication; Dysphagia; Dyspnea; Occipitocervical fusion; Posterior fusion; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; OCCIPITAL BONE; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINE FUSION; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AXIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247188095     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000259977.69726.6f     Document Type: Article

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