MRI of the upper airway and McCoy-balloon laryngoscopy with left molar approach in a patient with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and previous unsuccessful endotracheal intubation [15]

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1879-1880

  Mentzelopoulos, Spyros D ^a   Armaganidis, Apostolos ^a   Niokou, Dimitra ^a   Matsota, Paraskevi ^a   Tzoufi, Maria ^a   Kelekis, Nikos ^a   Soultanis, Kostantinos ^a   Oikonomopoulos, Nikos ^a   Kostopanagiotou, Georgia ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROGRYPOSIS; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOGARTY CATHETER; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

ARTHROGRYPOSIS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 9244237681     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000139735.87434.71     Document Type: Letter

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