Anesthetic implications for video assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy in myasthenia gravis

Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 339-345

  El Dawlatly, Abdelazeem A ^a,c   Al Kattan, Khaled ^a   Hajjar, Waseem ^b   Essa, Mohamed ^b   Delvi, Bilal ^b   Khoja, Abdulaziz ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; FENTANYL; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETOPROFEN; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PATIENT MONITORING; THORAX SURGERY; THYMECTOMY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BUPIVACAINE; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KETOPROFEN; LIDOCAINE; METHYL ETHERS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PROPOFOL; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUFENTANIL; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 22544447691     PISSN: 05440440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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