Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration

Aspiration of teeth is a rare, potentially fatal complication of tracheal intubation. Early diagnosis and treatment are key to preventing further complications. Interpretation of the physical examination and radiographic evidence together with a high degree of suspicion are necessary to achieve earl...

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Autores principales: Melhuish, Jake, Fearnley, James, Ali, Nazrudeen, Jervis, Laetitia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Anesthesiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6529047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31157129
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4267
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author Melhuish, Jake
Fearnley, James
Ali, Nazrudeen
Jervis, Laetitia
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description Aspiration of teeth is a rare, potentially fatal complication of tracheal intubation. Early diagnosis and treatment are key to preventing further complications. Interpretation of the physical examination and radiographic evidence together with a high degree of suspicion are necessary to achieve early diagnosis of foreign body aspiration. We examine one such case of a misdiagnosed tooth in lung event.
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spelling pubmed-65290472019-05-31 Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration Melhuish, Jake Fearnley, James Ali, Nazrudeen Jervis, Laetitia Cureus Anesthesiology Aspiration of teeth is a rare, potentially fatal complication of tracheal intubation. Early diagnosis and treatment are key to preventing further complications. Interpretation of the physical examination and radiographic evidence together with a high degree of suspicion are necessary to achieve early diagnosis of foreign body aspiration. We examine one such case of a misdiagnosed tooth in lung event. Cureus 2019-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6529047/ /pubmed/31157129 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4267 Text en Copyright © 2019, Melhuish 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
Melhuish, Jake
Fearnley, James
Ali, Nazrudeen
Jervis, Laetitia
Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration
title Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration
title_full Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration
title_fullStr Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration
title_full_unstemmed Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration
title_short Tumour or Tooth? A Case of Missed Tooth Aspiration
title_sort tumour or tooth? a case of missed tooth aspiration
topic Anesthesiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6529047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31157129
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4267
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