Anesthesia in a 12 year old boy with somatic overgrowth secondary to pericentric inversion of chromosome 12

Abstract The management of a splenectomy in a boy with an unusual form of somatic overgrowth is presented. Except for a moderately difficult airway, no unusual reactions to anesthesia and surgery were encountered. Possible anesthetic implications of different somatic overgrowth syndromes in children...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of clinical anesthesia 2013-03, Vol.25 (2), p.135-137
Hauptverfasser:	Wong, Tina B., MD, Rowell, Jonathan C., MD, Waldhausen, John H.T., MD, Parisi, Melissa A., MD, PhD, Jonmarker, Christer, MD PhD
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abdomen Abnormalities, Multiple - genetics Anesthesia Anesthesia & Perioperative Care Anesthesia depending on patient's condition Anesthesia, General - methods Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Biological and medical sciences Catheters Child Chromosome 12 inversion Chromosome Inversion Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12 - genetics Diabetes Endocrinopathies Genes Gigantism Gigantism - genetics Gigantism - surgery Growth hormones Humans Hypothalamus. Hypophysis. Epiphysis (diseases) Intubation Male Medical sciences Mutation Non tumoral diseases. Target tissue resistance. Benign neoplasms Pain Pain Medicine Pediatric anesthesia Pediatrics Somatic overgrowth Spleen Splenectomy Splenectomy - methods Splenomegaly - surgery Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:	Abstract The management of a splenectomy in a boy with an unusual form of somatic overgrowth is presented. Except for a moderately difficult airway, no unusual reactions to anesthesia and surgery were encountered. Possible anesthetic implications of different somatic overgrowth syndromes in children are presented.
ISSN:	0952-8180 1873-4529
DOI:	10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.06.014