Upper lip bite test in a patient with McCune Albright syndrome with acromegaly

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 258-259

  Chakravarty, Chandrashish ^a   Yadav, Naveen ^a   Ali, Zulfiqar ^a   Prabhakar, Hemanshu ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Airway; Upper lip bite test

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; GROWTH HORMONE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ALBRIGHT SYNDROME; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLOTTIS; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MACROGLOSSIA; MOUTH EXAMINATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; UPPER LIP BITE TEST;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA, POLYOSTOTIC; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; JAW RELATION RECORD; LARYNGOSCOPY; MACROGLOSSIA; MOUTH; NECK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL;

EID: 73449096705     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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