Orbital decompression surgery for thyroid eye disease: implications for anaesthesia.
The management of thyroid-associated eye disease is reviewed with particular reference to surgical management and its implications for anaesthetists. Experience from a unit undertaking such surgery is presented.
Stannard
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Manchester Royal Infirmary, Department of Anaesthetics, Manchester, UK.
Slater
R M
RM
Leatherbarrow
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D000758:Anesthesia; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D049970:Graves Ophthalmopathy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery