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Anything can Happen in the Surgery
Yusuf Kahya1, Çiğdem Yıldırım Güçlü2, Bülent Mustafa Yenigün1, Hasay Guliyev3 and Ayten
Kayı Cangır1*
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara University School of Medicine, Turkey
2Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Ankara University School of Medicine, Turkey
3Departmentof Otorhinolaryngology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Turkey
*Corresponding author: Ayten Kayı Cangır, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ibni Sina Hospital, 06100 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey
Published: 20 Nov, 2017
Cite this article as: Kahya Y, Güçlü ÇY, Yenigün BM,
Guliyev H, Cangır AK. Anything can
Happen in the Surgery. Clin Surg. 2017;
2: 1742.
Keywords
Temporomandibular joint dislocation; Laryngeal mask airway; Bronchoscopy
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Introduction: Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy (FOB) is a safe procedure with a major complication
rate of < 1%. In this case, it was aimed to present a rare complication during FOB.
Case presentation: A 19-year-old female patient undergoing diagnostic FOB due to
endobronchial lesion of the lower lobe of the left lung was placed in a classical Laryngeal Mask
(LMA) no:3 after induction of general anesthesia, followed by FOB. When the LMA was removed
after FOB, the anesthesiologist determined that the patient's lower jaw was protruding forward and
that the mouth was not closed (Figure 1). Clinically, anterior bilateral Temporomandibular Joint
Dislocation (TMJD) was diagnosed and manual reduction was performed intraoperatively by the
otorhinolaryngology team (Figures 2 and 3).
Discussion: It has been reported that TMJD may occur with general anesthesia agents and wide
opening of the mouth in patients with weak temporomandibular joint capsule due to hypotony in
the chewing muscles [1-3]. In our department, this complication was encountered for the first time
in 4484 patients who underwent FOB with LMA between 2000-2017. These cases should be reduced
by otorhinolaryngology team under general anesthesia [4,5].
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