Acute Pain
Volume 9, Issue 4 , Pages 221-227 , December 2007

Anaphylactic reaction after intravenous dipyrone

  • Ulrike M. Stamer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 228 287 14114; fax: +49 228 287 14125.
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  • Martin Soehle

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Tjoung-Won Park

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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  • Matthias Fischer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinik am Eichert, 73006 Göppingen, Germany
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  • Frank Stuber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany

Received 27 April 2007 ,Revised 27 July 2007 ,Accepted 16 August 2007.

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PII: S1366-0071(07)00151-9

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2007.08.025

Acute Pain
Volume 9, Issue 4 , Pages 221-227 , December 2007

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