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A serious anaesthetic complication of a Lefort I osteotomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 August 2006
Abstract
We report a case of surgical transsection of the nasoendotracheal tube during a Lefort I maxillary osteotomy, resulting in severe intra-operative ventilatory difficulties. The management of this problem and a brief review of the literature are presented.
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- 1999 European Society of Anaesthesiology
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