Anesthetic and surgical experience in a case of total vertical craniopagus

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 62-67

  Khan, Zahid Hussain ^a   Tabatabai, Seyed A ^a   Saberi, Hooshang ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Craniopagus; Postmortem findings; Separation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CONJOINED TWINS; HUMAN; INFANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 0033168668     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(99)00032-4     Document Type: Article

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