%0 Journal Article
%T Anaesthesia for Pectoralis Major Myocutaneous Flap in a Patient with a Major Facial Defect and Restricted Mouth Opening: A Case Report
%A Akwasi Antwi-Kusi
%A Wilfred Sam-Awortwi
%A Gabriel Boakye
%J Open Journal of Anesthesiology
%@ 2164-5558
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojanes.2013.33038
%X Perioperative airway management in patients with oro-facial cancers who has undergone chemo/or radiotherapy poses a great challenge to the anaesthesiologist. These challenges are mainly due to either a mass in the oral cavity or a limited mouth opening making intubation difficult or a major facial defect making mask ventilation difficult. We present our first time experience in a 27-year-old man with a malignant lymphoma of the right cheek who had undergone chemotherapy and needed plastic surgery to restore the face.
%K Pectoralis Major Myocutaneous Flap
%K Fibreoptic Intubation
%K Anaesthesia
%K Airway
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?DOI=10.4236/ojanes.2013.33038