Emergency management of a patient with severe airway obstruction resulting from poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma: A case report

Oncology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 771-774

  Yang, Rong ^a   Yu, Xiongfei ^a   Ma, Liang ^a   Wu, Fusheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Cardiopulmonary bypass; Stents; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOKERATIN 14; DIAZEPAM; PROTEIN P63; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GOITER; HEMOPTYSIS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; POORLY DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER; STENT; STRIDOR; VOCAL CORD DISORDER;

EID: 84864697727     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2012.827     Document Type: Article

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