Clinical dilemma: A patient with postdural puncture headache and acute leukemia

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 166-167

  Bucklin, Brenda A ^a   Tinker, John H ^a   Smith, Carl V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; FENTANYL; IBUPROFEN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILDBIRTH; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 0032901605     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199901000-00031     Document Type: Article

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