Acta anaesthesiologica Belgica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Belg · Jan 2011
Case ReportsGross tracheal deviation: airway challenges and concerns--two case reports.
Practical guidelines and algorithms may not always help in difficult airway management. Large thyroid swellings may be responsible for several difficulties during the perioperative period, such as distortion of the airway, endocrine disturbances and metabolic effects. ⋯ One of those patients had also retrosternal extension of goiter. Both patients were scheduled for an excision of their colloid goiter.