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Difficult airway management in a patient with a thin mandible

A 47-year-old woman was referred for surgical treatment of osteomyelitis of the mandible. She had already undergone three previous surgeries. Pre-anesthetic airway evaluation predicted a difficult airway, due to the thin, retro-positioned mandible, tongue, and atrophic changes in the lips and soft t...

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Autores principales: Choi, Hong-Seok, Oh, Jong-Shik, Kim, Eun-Jung, Yoon, Ji-Young, Yoon, Ji-Uk, Kim, Cheul-Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Dental Society of Anesthsiology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5564199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28879322
http://dx.doi.org/10.17245/jdapm.2016.16.4.317