Post-tonsillectomy bleeding in children with von Willebrand disease: A single-institution experience

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 715-721

  Rodriguez, Kenneth D ^a   Sun, Gordon H ^c   Pike, Francis ^b   Mandel, Ellen M ^a   Casselbrant, Margaretha L ^a   Chi, David H ^a,b  

^a Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ^*  (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; DESMOPRESSIN ACETATE; VITAMIN K GROUP; ARGIPRESSIN[1 DEAMINO];

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE; BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TONSILLECTOMY; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASES;

EID: 77951912475     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2010.01.029     Document Type: Article

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