• Anaesthesia · Feb 1999

    Case Reports

    An unexpected complication of the intubating laryngeal mask.

    • M A Branthwaite.
    • Anaesthesia. 1999 Feb 1; 54 (2): 166-7.

    AbstractFatal oesophageal perforation occurred as a complication of elective general anaesthesia for cataract extraction in a 77-year-old female patient. Tracheal intubation had been achieved, albeit with difficulty, in the course of a clinical trial of the intubating laryngeal mask.

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