Intraoperative pulmonary embolism during spinal instrumentation surgery

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-94

  Takahashi, S ^a,b   Kitagawa, H ^b   Ishii, T ^a  

^a Nagahama City Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE MARROW; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FAT EMBOLISM; FATALITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT SURGERY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SPINAL DISEASES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0037272953     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.85B1.13172     Document Type: Review

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