ArticleCureus2025
Utilization of Preoperative Endoscopic Airway Examination Guiding Difficult Airway Management in an Unknown Cause of Mucositis: A Case Report.
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Assessing the extent of pathology in difficult airways and choosing the optimal airway management strategy in such cases can be a challenge for clinicians. Preoperative endoscopic airway examination (PEAE) is helpful in evaluating a challenging airway and formulating an airway plan in stable patients. A 52-year-old male scheduled for esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and biopsy presented with dysphagia, aphonia, mucositis, mucosal bleeding, and impaired mouth opening from pain. We were unable to complete the airway exam and were concerned about possible airway edema. PEAE was easily performed in preoperative holding area, airway was significant for erythema with no significant edema, no active bleeding, and mucosa had cobblestone-like appearance. With this information, we were confident to undergo EGD and biopsy with native airway under total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA). The patient was later diagnosed with diffuse large B cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma and paraneoplastic pemphigus.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.