Lower extremity latrogenic nerve injury due to compression during intraabdominal surgery

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 504-508

  Dillavou, Ellen D ^a   Anderson, L Roderick ^b   Bernert, Richard A ^a   Mularski, Richard A ^a   Hunter, Glenn C ^a   Fiser, Steven M ^a   Rappaport, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE INJURY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; SCIATIC NERVE; ABDOMEN; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED;

ABDOMEN; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0030612460     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(97)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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