Preoperative valproate administration does not increase blood loss during temporal lobectomy

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 98-101

  Ward, Mariann M ^a   Barbaro, Nicholas M ^a   Laxer, Kenneth D ^b   Rampil, Ira J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulopathy; Platelets; Temporal lobectomy; Valproate

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET AGGREGATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 0030031626     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00519.x     Document Type: Article

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