Epidural Hematoma after Thoracic Epidural Catheter Removal in the Absence of Risk Factors

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 531-534

  Sidiropoulou, Tatiana ^a,b   Pompeo, Eugenio ^a   Bozzao, Alessandro ^a   Lunardi, Pierpaolo ^a   Dauri, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anesthetic complications; Epidural hematoma; Thoracic epidural anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MEPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DUODENUM ULCER; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; OBSERVATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; THORACOSCOPE; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MALE; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0345357746     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1098-7339(03)00388-2     Document Type: Article

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