SEVERE DEGENERATION OF THE BRAIN FOLLOWING NITROUS OXIDE-OXYGEN ANESTHESIA
- 1 April 1938
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Annals of Surgery
- Vol. 107 (4) , 486-491
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-193804000-00002
Abstract
The severity of the changes in the brain consequent to the encephalopathy following nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia have been described by Lowenberg, Waggoner and Zbinden,1 and by Courville.2,3 The purpose of this report is to describe the clinical course and changes in the brain of a patient who lived much longer than the other cases which have been reported.Keywords
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- THE PATHOGENESIS OF NECROSIS OF THE CEREBRAL GRAY MATTER FOLLOWING NITROUS OXIDE ANESTHESIAAnnals of Surgery, 1938