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Awake Intubation with Bonfil's Retromolar Fibroscope in a Patient with Hard and Fixed Swelling of the Right Side of the Neck and the Tonsillar Tumor

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Journal Saudi J Anaesth
Specialty Anesthesiology
Date 2011 Dec 7
PMID 22144933
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Abstract

Bonfil's rigid fibroscope is an instrument used to perform tracheal intubation, proven to be effective both in patients with normal and in those with difficult airways. We use this device in awake intubation in a patient presenting with a large right neck mass and a tonsillar tumor which limited the mouth opening. Also, we describe our technique of insertion of Bonfil's retromolar fibroscope from the right side of the mouth across the tongue.

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