Two cases with past and family history of febrile convulsion developed seizure-like movements during sevoflurane anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 571-

  Yano, Takeshi ^a   Okubo, Shigeaki ^b   Naruo, Hiroaki ^b   Iwasaki, Tatsuma ^b   Takasaki, Mayumi ^b   Tsuneyoshi, Isao ^b  

^a Kokuritsu Miyakonojo Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; SEVOFLURANE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL;

ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEVER; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; METHODOLOGY;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; METHYL ETHERS; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 52649088743     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318182c89d     Document Type: Letter

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