Uvular and tonsillar pillar mucosal necrosis as a cause of severe sore throat after orotracheal intubation

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 772-773

  Salengros, J C F B ^a   El Founas, W ^a   Velghe Lenelle, C E ^a   Willemse, E ^a   Sosnowski, M ^a   Andry, G ^a   Digonnet, A ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; ORAL MUCOSAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; SORE THROAT; UVULAR AND TONSILLAR PILLAR MUCOSAL NECROSIS; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PALATE; PALATINE TONSIL; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE DISEASE;

ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PALATINE TONSIL; PHARYNGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC DISEASES; UVULA;

EID: 80051926587     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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