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- Title
Awake tracheotomy in a patient with stridor and dyspnoea caused by a sizeable malignant thyroid tumor: a case report and short review of the literature.
- Authors
Hohn, Andreas; Kauliņš, Tālis; Hinkelbein, Jochen; Kauliņa, Krista; Kopp, Andreas; Russo, Sebastian G.; Kohlen, Sigurd; Schröder, Stefan
- Abstract
Key Clinical Message Individual airway management is mandatory in patients with large goiters undergoing thyroid surgery. Preoperative endoscopic airway evaluation and imaging studies can support clinical decision making. Awake tracheotomy can be an effective and reasonable airway management strategy in such patients.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of dyspnea; TRACHEOTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; AIRWAY (Anatomy); THYROID gland surgery
- Publication
Clinical Case Reports, 2017, Vol 5, Issue 11, p1891
- ISSN
2050-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ccr3.1216