Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation

Cervical spondylosis and ankylosing hyperostosis of the cervical vertebrae are usually asymptomatic. This is a case report of a patient with massive anterior cervical osteophytes resulting in failure of intubation prior to a lumbar canal stenosis surgery. The osteophytes extended from C3 to C7 and r...

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Autores principales: Alsalmi, Sultan, Bugdadi, Abdulgadir, Alkhayri, Abdu, Fichten, Anthony, Peltier, Johann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Anesthesiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5984258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29868301
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2400
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author Alsalmi, Sultan
Bugdadi, Abdulgadir
Alkhayri, Abdu
Fichten, Anthony
Peltier, Johann
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Bugdadi, Abdulgadir
Alkhayri, Abdu
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Peltier, Johann
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description Cervical spondylosis and ankylosing hyperostosis of the cervical vertebrae are usually asymptomatic. This is a case report of a patient with massive anterior cervical osteophytes resulting in failure of intubation prior to a lumbar canal stenosis surgery. The osteophytes extended from C3 to C7 and resulted in the anterior displacement of the pharynx and the trachea. The patient was managed successfully with anterior cervical osteophytectomy.
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spelling pubmed-59842582018-06-04 Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation Alsalmi, Sultan Bugdadi, Abdulgadir Alkhayri, Abdu Fichten, Anthony Peltier, Johann Cureus Anesthesiology Cervical spondylosis and ankylosing hyperostosis of the cervical vertebrae are usually asymptomatic. This is a case report of a patient with massive anterior cervical osteophytes resulting in failure of intubation prior to a lumbar canal stenosis surgery. The osteophytes extended from C3 to C7 and resulted in the anterior displacement of the pharynx and the trachea. The patient was managed successfully with anterior cervical osteophytectomy. Cureus 2018-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5984258/ /pubmed/29868301 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2400 Text en Copyright © 2018, Alsalmi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Anesthesiology
Alsalmi, Sultan
Bugdadi, Abdulgadir
Alkhayri, Abdu
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Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation
title Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation
title_full Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation
title_fullStr Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation
title_full_unstemmed Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation
title_short Urgent Anterior Cervical Osteophytectomy for an Asymptomatic Cervical Hyperostosis to Overcome Failed Intubation
title_sort urgent anterior cervical osteophytectomy for an asymptomatic cervical hyperostosis to overcome failed intubation
topic Anesthesiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5984258/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2400
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