Korean J Anesthesiol.
2010 Apr;58(4):396-400. 10.4097/kjae.2010.58.4.396.
Anesthetic consideration for patients with severe tracheal obstruction caused by thyroid cancer: A report of 2 cases
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- 1Department Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Hanyang Medical Center, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. macheong@hanyang.ac.kr
- KMID: 2299340
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2010.58.4.396
Abstract
- To achieve safe airway management, it is essential first to predict whether there will be difficulties in intubating or ventilating the patient's airway. An enlarged thyroid mass can produce a tracheal obstruction by compression or intraluminal invasion or both. We report two patients with thyroid cancer that obstructed the trachea by compression or invasion. There was no difficulty in endotracheal intubation of the patients with marked thyroid enlargement or in securing passage of the endotracheal tube through the compressed or narrowed portion of the trachea.
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