Case series: Anesthetic management of patients with spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease)

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-141

  Niesen, Adam D ^a   Sprung, Juraj ^a   Prakash, Y S ^a,b   Watson, James C ^a   Weingarten, Toby N ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENT; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LARYNX SPASM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LARYNGISMUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCCINYLCHOLINE;

EID: 64849103444     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-008-9018-1     Document Type: Article

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