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Failure of insertion of a laryngeal mask airway caused by a variation in the anatomy of the thyroid cartilage

✍ Scribed by Browning; Whittet; Williams

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
669 KB
Volume
54
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-2409

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✦ Synopsis

We report the failure of insertion of a laryngeal mask airway in a patient with a pre‐operative diagnosis of an abnormality of the superior cornua of the thyroid cartilage. We believe that this is the first time that this reason for failure has been reported.

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