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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004 93(6):758-760; doi:10.1093/bja/aeh276
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004

Editorial III: Preoperative assessment of the airway: should anaesthetists be making use of modern imaging techniques?

S. Gillespie1 and P. A. Farling2,*

1 Department of Radiology 2 Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast BT12 6BA, UK

* Corresponding author. E-mail: peter.farling@dnet.co.uk

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Preoperative assessment of the central airway is concerned primarily with the detection and evaluation of laryngotracheal stenosis. There are many causes of laryngotracheal stenosis; however, stenosis secondary to a thyroid goitre is one of the more common types requiring evaluation prior to general anaesthetic. A postero-anterior chest and lateral thoracic inlet radiograph have been the primary investigative tools used to assess the degree of tracheal compression and deviation in both the transverse and antero-posterior planes.1 In many patients this type of imaging will suffice; however, computed tomography (CT) will more comprehensively detail the extent of tracheal stenosis and the degree of retrosternal extension. Compression of other structures by retrosternal . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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