Approaching airways in oncology surgery of the head and neck

The airways in an oncology patient behaves like a known difficult airway in which the incidence increases as well as morbimortality because of the own conditions of the patient, his basic disease and adjuvant treatments. A descriptive prospective study was conducted in 'Maria Curie' Oncology Teaching Provincial Hospital during the period from January 2010 to December 2010. The sample included 210 patients studied with the purpose of identifying morbimortality of the difficult airway in Oncology Surgery of the head and neck in our institution