The effects of dexamethasone on antiemetics in female patients undergoing gynecologic surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 913-917

  Fujii, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Tanaka, Hiroyoshi ^a   Toyooka, Hidenori ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DROPERIDOL; GRANISETRON; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIEMETIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTIEMETICS; DEXAMETHASONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VOMITING;

EID: 0030806536     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199710000-00036     Document Type: Article

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