• Paediatric anaesthesia · Dec 2004

    Case Reports

    Unsuspected sublingual mass causing difficult intubation in an infant.

    • Edouard Saade, Kevin Hopkins, and Nancy Setzer.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 78411, USA. edouardsaade@sbcglobal.net
    • Paediatr Anaesth. 2004 Dec 1;14(12):1027-9.

    AbstractA case is described of a difficult intubation in an infant presenting for cleft palate closure, due to an unsuspected sublingual mass. The report stresses the fact that multiple anomalies can coexist in an infant and contribute to difficult intubation through different mechanisms. Various airway management strategies are explored.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…