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Videolaryngoscopy offers advantages over classic laryngoscopy in a patient with seriously limited lip opening

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Catharina Hospital-Brabant Medical School, Michelangelolaan 2, NL-5623EJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    André van Zundert & Barbe Pieters

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    André van Zundert & Barbe Pieters

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Maarten Hoogbergen

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van Zundert, A., Pieters, B. & Hoogbergen, M. Videolaryngoscopy offers advantages over classic laryngoscopy in a patient with seriously limited lip opening. J Anesth 26, 468–469 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-011-1314-1

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