Case report: Epidural abscess in a parturient with pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP)

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1010-1014

  Cummings III, Kenneth C ^a   Dolak, James A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM; MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN; PREDNISONE; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LABOR INDUCTION; LAMINECTOMY; LEG PAIN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR SPINE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUERPERIUM; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORACIC SPINE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREDNISONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRURITUS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; URTICARIA;

EID: 37849188497     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03022530     Document Type: Article

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