Many surgeons are challenged by patients presenting with upper airway obstructive symptoms due to compressive advanced head and neck tumors when emergency tracheostomy is indicated. Tumor bulk displaces the trachea and surrounding structures from their normal anatomy, making an emergency tracheostom
Head and neck emergencies
✍ Scribed by Elliót W. Strong
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 368 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0147-0272
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