case_images: PMC3350293_01
case_images: Larynx with tumour mass after dissection. White arrow: tumour mass. Yellow arrow: barely recognizable epiglottis and severely narrowed glottic opening. Tracheal tube size 6.0.
case_images: CRIM.ANESTHESIOLOGY2011-878910.001.jpg
case_images: PMC3350293_01_CRIM.ANESTHESIOLOGY2011-878910.001.jpg
case_images: fig1
case_images: In theatre, it was tried to pass the same tracheal tube 6.0 through the glottis, which was impossible, because of extensive fibrosis and severe narrowing in airway diameter (Figure 1).
case_images: Three dimensional CT reconstruction of the larynx, yellow structures are air. Gray areas are bony structures. There is narrowing of the airway of 4 mm over a 4 cm long trajectory at the subglottic level. White arrow: reconstruction of air column in the feeding tube which is present in the oesophagus.
case_images: CRIM.ANESTHESIOLOGY2011-878910.002.jpg
case_images: PMC3350293_01_CRIM.ANESTHESIOLOGY2011-878910.002.jpg
case_images: fig2
case_images: The smallest airway diameter measured was four millimetres (mm) (Figure 2).