Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage more common than previously described-an institutional chart review

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 181-186

  Tolska, Hanna Kaisa ^a   Takala, Annika ^a   Pitkäniemi, Janne ^b   Jero, Jussi ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; NSAID; Postoperative complications plus haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DICLOFENAC; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; KETOPROFEN; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUTERIZATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; REOPERATION; REVIEW; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN 5-HT3 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TONSILLECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872335980     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2012.723825     Document Type: Review

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