Anaesthesia for urgent splenectomy in acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 226-227

  Trimmings, A J ^a   Walmsley, A J ^a  

^a EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BLISTER; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REFRACTORY THROMBOCYTOPENIA; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TONGUE SWELLING; ACUTE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 59449087503     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05847.x     Document Type: Letter

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