Are antioxidant levels measured immediately postoperatively an indicator of magnitude of injury?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 212-216

  Morris, Don M ^a,b   Smith, Harriet O ^a,b   Liu, Wei ^a   Genesen, Mark C ^a,b   Vander Jagt, Dorothy H ^a   Glew, Robert H ^a   Fry, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ASSAY; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SURGICAL INJURY;

ABDOMEN; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0033730555     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00475-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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