Development of cerebral air emboli during mohs micrographic surgery

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1414-1421

  Goldman, Glenn ^a   Altmayer, Steven ^b   Sambandan, Priya ^c   Cook, Jonathan L ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c Department of Dermatology   (Italy)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CALVARIA; CASE REPORT; CHEMOSURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN TINGLING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MOHS SURGERY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69949130336     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01250.x     Document Type: Article

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