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Difficult airway management using the Pentax-AWS (Airway Scope) for a patient with bilateral giant thyroid tumors

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, 663-8501, Japan

    Nobuyasu Komasawa, Ryusuke Ueki, Tsuneo Tatara & Chikara Tashiro

  2. Department of Central Surgical Unit, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

    Yoshiroh Kaminoh

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Komasawa, N., Ueki, R., Tatara, T. et al. Difficult airway management using the Pentax-AWS (Airway Scope) for a patient with bilateral giant thyroid tumors. J Anesth 24, 494–495 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-010-0901-x

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