Clinical Study
Retrosternal Percutaneous Tracheostomy: An Approach for Predictably Impossible Classic Tracheostomy
Table 1
Description of the local anatomical problems in our patients.
| Anatomical problems | Patients, |
| Hyper-flexion/impossible neck flexion due to: | 11 | Musculoskeletal deformation | 7 | Hallow/C-spine fixation after neck injury or surgery | 4 | Morbid obesity and low larynx | 7 | Goiter | 3 | Patients with multiple neck anatomical abnormalities among the 21 patients | 2 |
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