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Upper Acute Respiratory Failure in Neck Cancer

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Respiratory complications are a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with primary or metastatic head and neck cancers [1]. The seriousness of the symptoms differs according to the location of the cancer. For example, a small lesion in the larynx may cause a severe respiratory distress, while a massive lesion in the pharyngeal fossa may cause only minimal respiratory problem. The secondary tumor or metastatic cancer that is found in the upper neck region, pressure of the lesion on the tissue, or sometimes hemorrhage of fragile mass or even little aspiration that adds to the pressure of already existing lesion may also cause respiratory failure. Consequently, the common concern for these cancer types is a respiratory failure [2].

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  1. Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Anesthesiology, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

    Nilgün Alpay

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

    Mediha Turktan & Dilek Ozcengiz

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  1. Intensive Care and Non Invasive Ventilatory Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain

    Antonio M. Esquinas

  2. Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

    S. Egbert Pravinkumar

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    AYMAN O. SOUBANI

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Alpay, N., Turktan, M., Ozcengiz, D. (2018). Upper Acute Respiratory Failure in Neck Cancer. In: Esquinas, A., Pravinkumar, S., SOUBANI, A. (eds) Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Cancer Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49256-8_9

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