Can regional anaesthesia for lymph-node dissection improve the prognosis in malignant melanoma?

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 253-259

  Gottschalk, A ^a   Brodner, G ^b   Van Aken, H K ^a   Ellger, B ^a   Althaus, S ^a   Schulze, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Hornheide Specialist Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

anaesthesia general; anaesthesia, spinal; melanoma; surgery; survival

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEVOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROMA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84863940652     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aes176     Document Type: Article

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