Brachial Plexus Injury After Robotic-Assisted Thoracoscopic Thymectomy

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 584-586

  Pandey, Ravindra ^a   Elakkumanan, Lenin Babu ^a   Garg, Rakesh ^a   Jyoti, Bikram ^a   Mukund, Chaitra ^a   Chandralekha, ^a   Punj, Jyostna ^a   Vanlal, Darlong ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PREGABALIN; PROPOFOL; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; RANITIDINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CASE REPORT; DOUBLE LUMEN TUBE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTROPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LETTER; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROPATHY; OPERATING ROOM; PAIN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RADIAL ARTERY; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; ULNAR NERVE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 67650556996     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2008.09.010     Document Type: Letter

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