A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery

Subcutaneous emphysema is not an unknown complication following cleft lip surgery. We describe a case of severe subcutaneous emphysema that developed six hours after surgery. The laryngoscopic intubation was smooth. Following subcutaneous emphysema the patient was treated conservatively with mask ox...

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Autores principales: Vijayakumar, B, Ganessan, R, Anbalagan, V
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661358
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63638
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description Subcutaneous emphysema is not an unknown complication following cleft lip surgery. We describe a case of severe subcutaneous emphysema that developed six hours after surgery. The laryngoscopic intubation was smooth. Following subcutaneous emphysema the patient was treated conservatively with mask oxygen and spontaneous resolution occurred within 48 hours.
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spelling pubmed-29007462010-07-26 A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery Vijayakumar, B Ganessan, R Anbalagan, V Indian J Anaesth Case Report Subcutaneous emphysema is not an unknown complication following cleft lip surgery. We describe a case of severe subcutaneous emphysema that developed six hours after surgery. The laryngoscopic intubation was smooth. Following subcutaneous emphysema the patient was treated conservatively with mask oxygen and spontaneous resolution occurred within 48 hours. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2900746/ /pubmed/20661358 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63638 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vijayakumar, B
Ganessan, R
Anbalagan, V
A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery
title A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery
title_full A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery
title_fullStr A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery
title_full_unstemmed A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery
title_short A case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery
title_sort case of severe subcutaneous emphysema in the post-operative period following cleft lip surgery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661358
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63638
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