Bilateral peroneal neuropathy after surgery in the lithotomy position [1]

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 254-255

  Erol, Özlem ^a   Özçakar, Levent ^a   Kaymak, Bayram ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOOT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG; LETTER; LITHOTOMY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLECTOMY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; POSTURE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12144252168     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-004-0026-4     Document Type: Letter

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