Perioperative Hypersensitivity Reactions: Diagnosis, Treatment and Evaluation

Current Treatment Options in Allergy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 113-128

  Garvey, Lene Heise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allergy; Anaesthesia; Anaphylaxis; Hypersensitivity reactions; Perioperative hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016831969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21963053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40521-016-0078-0     Document Type: Review

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