Is the use of intraoperative heparin safe?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Constance M ^a   Ashjian, Peter ^a   Disa, Joseph J ^a   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a   Pusic, Andrea L ^a   Mehrara, Babak J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROMA; THROMBOSIS; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOMA; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 40549105488     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000299267.84139.2a     Document Type: Article

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