• Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg · Mar 2014

    Lingual nerve injury following use of a supraglottic airway device.

    • Andrew Jenkinson, Richard Crosher, Ricardo Mohammed-Ali, and Kirsty Parsons.
    • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rotherham General Hospital, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom. Electronic address: aojenkinson@googlemail.com.
    • Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2014 Mar 1;52(3):279-80.

    AbstractWe present the case of a 64-year-old woman who lost sensation on the left side of her tongue after an orthopaedic procedure under general anaesthetic. It provides evidence that anaesthetic airway devices can injure the lingual nerve.Copyright © 2013 The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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