Unexpected surgical difficulties leading to hemorrhage and gas embolus during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: A case report

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 891-894

  Martay, Kenneth ^a   Dembo, Greg ^a   Vater, Youri ^a   Charpentier, Kevin ^a   Levy, Adam ^a   Bakthavatsalam, Ramasamy ^a   Freund, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; HETASTARCH; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROPOFOL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SEVOFLURANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY SCAR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN MALFORMATION;

EID: 0942277145     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03018734     Document Type: Article

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