Lumbar Epidural Blood Patch to Treat a Large, Symptomatic Postsurgical Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak of 5 Weeks Duration in a 3-Year-Old

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 629-631

  Sanders, John C ^a   Gandhoke, Ronald ^a   Moro, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; DEVICE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 1342288688     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000100661.31566.43     Document Type: Article

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