Bleeding complications in skin cancer surgery are associated with warfarin but not aspirin therapy

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1356-1360

  Dixon, A J ^a   Dixon, M P ^b   Dixon, J B ^c  

^a Skin Alert Skin Cancer Clinics   (Australia)

^b Skincanceronly   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIATHERMY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EAR SURGERY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN LIGATION;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WARFARIN;

EID: 35948959304     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5864     Document Type: Article

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