Epidural Hematoma Associated with Dextran Infusion

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 811-814

  Muir, Jesse J ^a   Church, Eric J ^a   Weinmeister, Kent P ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; BUPIVACAINE; DEXTRAN; FENTANYL; HEPARIN; PROPOFOL; PROTAMINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG INFUSION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LARYNGEAL MASK; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL RISK; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MONITORING; EMERGENCY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GRAFT OCCLUSION; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOW BACK PAIN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DEXTRANS; DRAINAGE; DRUG MONITORING; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141940219     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000054723.61200.0A     Document Type: Article

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