Fig. 2.
CONSORT flowchart of patient selection. TT: tongue thickness, SH: anterior neck soft tissue thickness from skin to hyoid bone, ST: anterior neck soft tissue thickness from skin to thyrohyoid membrane, VH: invisibility of hyoid bone.
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