The compromised airway: Tumors, strictures, and tracheomalacia

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1065-1089

  Gaissert, Henning A ^a   Burns, James ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute airway obstruction; Intubation injury; Tracheomalacia; Upper airway tumors

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPHYXIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CARCINOSARCOMA; CHONDROBLASTOMA; CHONDROMA; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATOFIBROMA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FOLLOW UP; GLOMUS TUMOR; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX STENOSIS; LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MELANOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEURILEMOMA; PAPILLOMA; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SURGEON; TRACHEA; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEA TUMOR; TRACHEOMALACIA; VASCULARIZATION; COMPLICATION; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGOSTENOSIS; TRACHEAL NEOPLASMS; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNGOSTENOSIS; TRACHEAL NEOPLASMS; TRACHEAL STENOSIS; TRACHEOMALACIA;

EID: 77957911032     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2010.06.004     Document Type: Review

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