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Year : 2014 | Volume
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Management of difficult airway during laryngectomy and thyroidectomy
Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, Ram Nagar, Banur, Punjab, India
Correspondence Address:
Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa House No-27-A, Ratan Nagar, Tripuri, Patiala, Punjab India
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0975-2870.128978
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Laryngectomy is always a challenging surgery both from surgical and anaesthesiologist's perspective. The situation can get worse when such patients present with advanced laryngeal cancerrequire a definite surgical intervention along with thyroid gland removal. Apart from anesthetic difficulties in managing the deranged anatomy and pathophysiology, management of difficult airway during peri-operative period can be a huge challenging task. We are reporting a case of laryngeal carcinoma that was posted for laryngectomy and thyroidectomy as the thyroid gland was also invaded to a small extent. A difficult airway situation was anticipated as during indirect laryngoscopy it was observed that the glottic covering was occluded to a large extent by a soft tissue growth. |
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