Difficult tracheal extubation in a patient with an unsuspected congenital subglottic stenosis.
A case is described of difficulty in advancing a tracheal tube and subsequent difficult extubation in an asymptomatic patient. The origin of this complication was an unsuspected subglottic stenosis, and a subsequent experiment showed how the relatively large folds of the cuff of an armoured tracheal tube could become caught on a narrow section of airway.
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Department of Anesthesiology, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis