Pneumocephalus after inadvertent dural puncture during epidural anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 444-

  Gómez Ríos, Manuel Á ^a   Fernández Goti, María Concepción ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; BRAIN; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POST-DURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PREGNANCY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872856537     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31825e6ecc     Document Type: Note

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