title: Difficult airway management in an infant with bilateral tessier number 4 cleft.
abstract: This case report describes the airway management of three month old child presenting with a severe facial congenital malformation, a bilateral Tessier number 4 cleft, and scheduled to undergo benign eye surgery. The use of a conventional laryngeal mask allowed successful management, despite the severity of the facial abnormality. This case is then discussed at the light of the literature.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramachandran
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rewari
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D003103:Coloboma / Q000601:surgery*; D019465:Craniofacial Abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000379:methods; D017214:Laryngeal Masks; D008297:Male