Alert for perioperative visual loss: An unusual presentation of an orbital haemangioma during spinal surgery

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 679-682

  Greenberg, R ^a   Tymms, A ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complications: perioperative postoperative visual loss, prone position; Haemangioma, hemangioma: orbital

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLICLAZIDE; ISOFLURANE; MANNITOL; METFORMIN; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NIFEDIPINE; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EXOPHTHALMOS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ORBIT DISEASE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINE SURGERY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 0347527103     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0303100614     Document Type: Article

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