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Unexpected brainstem compression following routine surgery in a child with oto-palato-digital syndrome
J R Clark1, L J Smith, B E Kendall
1Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, Hospital for Sick Children, London.
Anaesthesia
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
Oto-palato-digital syndrome type 1 is a rare condition with several features of concern to the anaesthetist. We report a patient who developed respiratory depression 5 h after general anaesthesia. This was subsequently found to be due to brainstem compression secondary to congenital deformities of the skull base and cervical vertebrae.