Lingual nerve injury following the use of an i-gel laryngeal mask

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 226-227

  Renes, S H ^a   Zwart, R ^b   Scheffer, G J ^a   Renes, S ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Institute for Surgery   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INNERVATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LARYNGEAL MASK; LETTER; LINGUAL NERVE; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; TONGUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; LINGUAL NERVE; MALE;

EID: 79951748337     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06636.x     Document Type: Letter

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