The shape of the pediatric larynx: Cylindrical or funnel shaped?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1379-1381

  Motoyama, Etsuro K ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANESTHESIST; BRONCHOSCOPY; CRICOID; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANOGENESIS; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGING; CHILD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRICOID CARTILAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNX; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 65349181841     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819ed494     Document Type: Editorial

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