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The utility of three-dimensional computed tomography in unanticipated difficult endotracheal intubation
N Kanaya1, S Kawana, H Watanabe
1Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan. kanaya@sapmede.ac.jp
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|August 29, 2000
Abstract
Implications:
We experienced a case of unanticipated difficult intubation with direct laryngoscopy because of narrowing of the retropharyngeal air space and laryngeal vestibulum. It is suggested that three-dimensional computed tomography is useful for evaluating both the abnormality of an airway and its relationship to surrounding tissue.