Long-term cognitive decline: Is there a link to surgery and anesthesia?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 931-932

  Leung, Jacqueline M ^a   Sands, Laura P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANESTHESIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEMORY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 70350437442     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181bc988f     Document Type: Editorial

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