Lower extremity paralysis after thoracotomy or thoracic epidural: Image first, ask questions later

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 201-203

  Butterworth, John ^a,b   Douglas Akinwande, Annette ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FH 204 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE WAX; BUPIVACAINE; CELLULOSE; FENTANYL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TERAZOSIN; THYROXINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LAMINECTOMY; LEG; LUNG TUMOR; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847655076     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000250362.34569.20     Document Type: Article

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