Single-dose tropisetron for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting after breast surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 931-935

  Chan, Matthew T V ^a   Chui, Po Tong ^a   Ho, Wai Sun ^a   King, Walter W K ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; TROPISETRON;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MASTECTOMY; NAUSEA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANTIEMETICS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDOLES; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VOMITING;

EID: 0344110530     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199810000-00035     Document Type: Article

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