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Admission chest X-ray.
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A blood culture drawn from his right internal jugular central line grew out S. epidermidis. A chest radiograph was non diagnostic (Fig. 1).
Excess adipose tissue in the region of the neck and thorax complicating tracheostomy.
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Otolaryngology evaluation revealed that a standard tracheostomy would be unsafe due to the excess thoracic adipose tissue (Fig. 2).