Characteristics of children diagnosed as having coagulopathies following posttonsillectomy bleeding

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-68

  Sun, Gordon H ^a   Harmych, Brian M ^a   Dickson, J Matthew ^b   Gonzalez Del Rey, Javier A ^b   Myer III, Charles M ^a,b   Greinwald Jr , John H ^a,b  

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

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADRENALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTTONSILLECTOMY BLEEDING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 78751693017     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.227     Document Type: Article

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