Equal and opposite expert opinion. Airway obstruction caused by a retrosternal thyroid mass: Management and prospective international expert opinion

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 828-836

  Cook, T M ^a   Morgan, P J ^a   Hersch, P E ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; LIDOCAINE; OXYGEN; REMIFENTANIL;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BRONCHOSCOPE; CAPNOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GOITER; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; NEBULIZATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSTERNAL THYROID MASS; REVIEW; STRIDOR; THYROID MASS; THYROIDECTOMY; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRACHEA COMPRESSION; TRACHEOSTOMY; WHEEZING;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 80051713559     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06650.x     Document Type: Review

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