Prediction of difficult tracheal intubations in thyroid surgery. Predictive value of neck circumference to thyromental distance ratio

• Alessandro De Cassai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro De Cassai, Michele Carron

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alessandro.decassai@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Medicine—DIMED, Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9773-1832

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• Francesco Papaccio ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine—DIMED, Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Giorgia Betteto ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine—DIMED, Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Chiara Schiavolin ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine—DIMED, Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Maurizio Iacobone,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Endocrine Surgery Unit, University of Padua, Padua

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• Michele Carron

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro De Cassai, Michele Carron

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine—DIMED, Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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