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Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication

Throat packing/pharyngeal packing routinely was done during almost all otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery, dental, and oral and maxillofacial surgeries. We present an unusual case of a pharyngeal throat pack inadvertently left behind postextubation. The pack was subsequently identified an...

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Autor principal: Basha, Mohammed Salman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30693260
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ams.ams_188_18
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description Throat packing/pharyngeal packing routinely was done during almost all otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery, dental, and oral and maxillofacial surgeries. We present an unusual case of a pharyngeal throat pack inadvertently left behind postextubation. The pack was subsequently identified and retrieved successfully from the gastrointestinal tract.
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spelling pubmed-63277902019-01-28 Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication Basha, Mohammed Salman Ann Maxillofac Surg Case Report - Surgery Throat packing/pharyngeal packing routinely was done during almost all otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery, dental, and oral and maxillofacial surgeries. We present an unusual case of a pharyngeal throat pack inadvertently left behind postextubation. The pack was subsequently identified and retrieved successfully from the gastrointestinal tract. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6327790/ /pubmed/30693260 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ams.ams_188_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication
title Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication
title_full Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication
title_fullStr Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication
title_full_unstemmed Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication
title_short Missing Pharyngeal Pack Endoscopically Retrieved: An Avoidable Complication
title_sort missing pharyngeal pack endoscopically retrieved: an avoidable complication
topic Case Report - Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30693260
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