Optimal dose of granisetron for prophylaxis against postoperative emesis after gynecological surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 652-656

  Mikawa, Katsuya ^a,b   Takao, Yumiko ^a   Nishina, Kahoru ^a   Shiga, Makoto ^a   Maekawa, Nobuhiro ^a   Obara, Hidefumi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANISETRON; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIEMETICS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GRANISETRON; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREMEDICATION; VOMITING;

EID: 0030756587     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199709000-00030     Document Type: Article

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