Conservative treatment of paraplegia after removal of an epidural catheter during low-molecular-weight heparin treatment

Anesthesiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 733-734

  Herbstreit, Frank ^b   Kienbaum, Peter ^a   Merguet, Peter ^a   Peters, Jürgen ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy ^*

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; ENOXAPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; SPINE;

EID: 0036730617     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200209000-00029     Document Type: Article

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