Anesthetic management of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

Abstract

examination, the patient is shown with a volume increase in the neck with a neck circumference of 66 centimeters, the largest limited oral opening, a chest x-ray is performed presenting retrosternal goitre with displacement and narrowness of the airway to the left. Therefore, computed tomography is taken, revealing narrowness of the larynx of 7.4x17.09 mm corroborated in the reconstruction of the airway (Figure 2–5), so it was scheduled by general surgery for a thyroidectomy plus tracheostomy.