Postoperative acute liver failure after therapeutic paracetamol administration

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-155

  Gould, T H ^a   Cockings, J G L ^a,b   Buist, M ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analgesics: paracetamol; Liver: failure, acute

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

EID: 0030974539     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x9702500209     Document Type: Article

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