Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 63, Issue 4 , Pages e390-e394 , April 2010

Respiratory management of Pierre Robin sequence using nasopharyngeal airway with Kirschner wire

  • Masaru Horikiri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Plastic Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka-city, Shizuoka 420–8660, Japan. Tel.: +81 54 247 6251; fax: +81 54 247 6259.
    • ,
  • Susam Park

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Mikio Kinoshita

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Daisuke Matsumoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

Received 27 July 2009 ,Accepted 20 September 2009.

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☆ A summary of this article was presented at the 49th Conference of the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chubu Branch, Tokai District Meeting in Nagoya, Japan, on 7 July 2007.

PII: S1748-6815(09)00720-7

doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2009.09.023

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 63, Issue 4 , Pages e390-e394 , April 2010

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