Anesthetic consideration for patients with severe tracheal obstruction caused by thyroid cancer -A report of 2 cases-.
To achieve safe airway management, it is essential first to predict whether there will be difficulties in intubating or ventilating the patient's airway. An enlarged thyroid mass can produce a tracheal obstruction by compression or intraluminal invasion or both. We report two patients with thyroid cancer that obstructed the trachea by compression or invasion. There was no difficulty in endotracheal intubation of the patients with marked thyroid enlargement or in securing passage of the endotracheal tube through the compressed or narrowed portion of the trachea.
Department Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Hanyang Medical Center, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Joong Woon
JW
Cho
Mi Ae
MA
Jeong
Jin Hwa
JH
Choi
Joo Won
JW
Cho
Hee Jong
HJ
Lee
Dong Won
DW
Kim
Kyo Sang
KS
Kim
Jung Kook
JK
Seo