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01-10-2004 | Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Author: Donald G. Mulder, M.D.

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 10/2004

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This report describes the management of three low risk patients with moderately symptomatic myasthenia gravis on whom an extended thymectomy was performed using high thoracic epidural anesthesia (HTEA) rather than the conventional general anesthesia. The authors are to be commended for their attempts to improve on currently accepted patient management. …

Title: Invited Commentary
Author: Donald G. Mulder, M.D.
Publication date: 01-10-2004
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 10/2004
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-004-1048-4

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