Cyanotic breath-holding spell: A life-threatening complication after radical resection of a cervicomedullary ganglioglioma

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-97

  Fujisawa, Hironori ^a   Yoshida, Yuya ^a   Niida, Yo ^a   Hasegawa, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yamashita, Junkoh ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervicomedullary ganglioglioma; Cyanotic breath holding spell; Respiratory insufficiency

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE;

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING DISORDER; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CERVICOMEDULLARY GANGLIOGLIOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE; CYANOTIC BREATH HOLDING SPELL; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GLIOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; NERVE FUNCTION; OPISTHOTONUS; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SWEATING; SYNCOPE;

ANOXEMIA; APNEA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYANOSIS; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPASM; SWEATING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 22144463539     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085163     Document Type: Article

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