Iatrogenic paraplegia caused by surgicel used for hemostasis during a thoracotomy: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 969-970

  Iwabuchi, Satoru ^a,b   Koike, Kaoru ^a   Okabe, Takeshi ^a   Tago, Satoshi ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a  

^a Miyagi Cancer Center   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Iatrogenic; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury; Surgicel; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACOTOMY;

CELLULOSE, OXIDIZED; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0030818288     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02388149     Document Type: Article

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