title: Anesthesia in a 12 year old boy with somatic overgrowth secondary to pericentric inversion of chromosome 12.
abstract: The management of a splenectomy in a boy with an unusual form of somatic overgrowth is presented. Except for a moderately difficult airway, no unusual reactions to anesthesia and surgery were encountered. Possible anesthetic implications of different somatic overgrowth syndromes in children are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
authors.forename: Tina B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Jonathan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Rowell
authors.forename: John H T
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Waldhausen
authors.forename: Melissa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.forename: Christer
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jonmarker
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D007446:Chromosome Inversion; D002881:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12 / Q000235:genetics*; D005877:Gigantism / Q000235:genetics / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013156:Splenectomy / Q000379:methods; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000601:surgery*