Bleeding Complications in Dermatologic Surgery

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 189-195

  Hurst, Eva A ^a   Yu, Siegrid S ^a   Grekin, Roy C ^a   Neuhaus, Isaac M ^a  

^a Box 0316   (United States)

Author keywords

bleeding; blood thinners; complications; dermatologic surgery; hematoma

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTITHROMBIN; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ARGATROBAN; CLOPIDOGREL; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LEPIRUDIN; STREPTOKINASE; TICLOPIDINE; TIROFIBAN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHEMOSURGERY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LUNG EMBOLISM; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SKIN SURGERY; SUTURE; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SKIN DISEASES; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

EID: 41449109811     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2008.03.002     Document Type: Review

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