Retropharyngeal hematoma after stellate ganglion block: Analysis of 27 patients reported in the literature

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1238-1245

  Higa, Kazuo ^a   Hirata, Kazuhiko ^b   Hirota, Kazunori ^b   Nitahara, Keiichi ^b   Shono, Shinjiro ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; MALE; NECK PAIN; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RETROPHARYNGEAL HEMATOMA; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; SWELLING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AUTOPSY; BLOOD COAGULATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PHARYNGITIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STELLATE GANGLION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751337059     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200612000-00024     Document Type: Article

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