The management of patients on anticoagulants prior to cutaneous surgery: Case report of a thromboembolic complication, review of the literature, and evidence-based recommendations

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Khalifeh, Marwan R ^a   Redett, Richard J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRIN GLUE; HEPARIN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TICLOPIDINE; VITAMIN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLEEDING TIME; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MELANOMA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN SURGERY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CASE MANAGEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HEMORRHAGE; HEPARIN; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; WARFARIN;

EID: 33749428583     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000221114.01290.85     Document Type: Article

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