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Ultrasound-guided superior laryngeal nerve block and translaryngeal block for awake tracheal intubation in a patient with laryngeal abscess

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Asahikawa Medical University, Midorigaoka-higashi 2-1-1-1, Asahikawa, 078-8510, Japan

    Takafumi Iida, Takayuki Kunisawa & Hiroshi Iwasaki

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan

    Akihiro Suzuki

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Iida, T., Suzuki, A., Kunisawa, T. et al. Ultrasound-guided superior laryngeal nerve block and translaryngeal block for awake tracheal intubation in a patient with laryngeal abscess. J Anesth 27, 309–310 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-012-1492-5

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