title: An unexpected difficult intubation in a patient with myasthenia gravis undergoing video-assisted transcervical thymectomy.
abstract: Although there are different methods to evaluate predictive parameters of difficult intubation in apparently normal patients, sometimes this event is unpredictable.We herein report a clinical case of difficult intubation during anaesthesia for video-assisted thymectomy in non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Grasso
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Celestre
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Borrata
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Migliore
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000601:surgery*; D013934:Thymectomy / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome