Postdural puncture headache: The role of prophylactic epidural blood patch

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 281-283

  Vasdev, Gurinder M S ^a   Southern, Peter A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dural Puncture; Epidural Abscess; Epidural Analgesia; Epidural Blood Patch; Epidural Catheter

Indexed keywords

BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; HEADACHE; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035379750     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-001-0044-8     Document Type: Article

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