Is the sitting or the prone position best for surgery for posterior fossa tumours in children?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 541-547

  Orliaguet, Gilles A ^a   Hanafi, Mohamed ^a   Meyer, Philippe G ^a   Blanot, Stéphane ^a   Jarreau, Marie Madeleine ^a   Bresson, Damien ^a   Zerah, Michel ^a   Carli, Pierre A ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia: neurosurgical; Complications; Operating position; Posterior fossa tumour

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY POSTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ASTROCYTOMA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; EMBOLISM, AIR; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; PRONE POSITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035725493     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2001.00733.x     Document Type: Article

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