%0 Journal Article
%T An Operation in the Park Bench Position Complicated by Massive Tongue Swelling
%A Hiroyuki Koizumi
%A Satoshi Utsuki
%A Madoka Inukai
%A Hidehiro Oka
%A Shigeyuki Osawa
%A Kiyotaka Fujii
%J Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/165860
%X This paper presents a case of massive tongue swelling as a complication after an operation in the park bench position. A 43-year-old male who had undergone a resection of a mass in the petrous bone of the clivus showed massive tongue swelling after the surgery in the left park bench position. A direct compression of the bite block caused the swelling of tongue. Tongue swelling may become fatal if it progresses to an airway obstruction; therefore the intraoperative and postoperative management is important.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/crim/nm/2012/165860/