Long-term, tube-free (permanent) tracheostomy in morbidly obese patients

Laryngoscope. 2004 Aug;114(8):1511-2; author reply 1512-3. doi: 10.1097/00005537-200408000-00038.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Intubation, Intratracheal
  • Lipectomy
  • Neck
  • Obesity, Morbid* / complications
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / complications
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / surgery
  • Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / complications
  • Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / surgery
  • Tracheostomy / methods*