Lengthening of the trachea during neck extension: Which part of the trachea is stretched?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 989-993

  Wong, David T ^a   Weng, Hao ^b   Lam, Eunice ^c   Song, Hai Bao ^d   Liu, Jin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INCISOR; JOINT MOBILITY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; SURGICAL TAPE; TRACHEA; VOCAL CORD; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; NECK; REFERENCE VALUES; TRACHEA; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 51449087790     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31817ef177     Document Type: Article

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