Massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair

We report two cases of massive tongue edema in routine palatoplasty. All patients had uneventful recovery. We postulated that the macroglossia was secondary to ischemia and venous congestion after prolonged use of Killner Dott mouth gag with slotted tongue blade exaggerated by hyperextension of neck...

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Autores principales: Rajesh, MC, Kuriakose, Saji, Sukumar, Jayanth, Ramdas, EK
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878457
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.111670
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description We report two cases of massive tongue edema in routine palatoplasty. All patients had uneventful recovery. We postulated that the macroglossia was secondary to ischemia and venous congestion after prolonged use of Killner Dott mouth gag with slotted tongue blade exaggerated by hyperextension of neck and Trendelenberg position.
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spelling pubmed-37136832013-07-22 Massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair Rajesh, MC Kuriakose, Saji Sukumar, Jayanth Ramdas, EK J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol Case Report We report two cases of massive tongue edema in routine palatoplasty. All patients had uneventful recovery. We postulated that the macroglossia was secondary to ischemia and venous congestion after prolonged use of Killner Dott mouth gag with slotted tongue blade exaggerated by hyperextension of neck and Trendelenberg position. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3713683/ /pubmed/23878457 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.111670 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair
title_full Massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair
title_fullStr Massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair
title_full_unstemmed Massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair
title_short Massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair
title_sort massive lingual swelling following cleft palate repair
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878457
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.111670
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